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Pop Culture Rocketry: The Nambi Effect is a Middling Biopic Bar Madhavan’s Commitment
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, thanks to a committed Madhavan is one of those films that you don’t really feel like criticising too much, and yet there’s little about it that outlasts its runtime.
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Pop Culture Stranger Things and the Beauty of the Steve-Dustin Bromance
The Steve-Dustin bromance is an unlikely alliance of opposites, that cut across the boundaries of type and age. It’s also the sweetest thing Stranger Things will leave us with.
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Features Create at your convenience
Creation begins at that point where all elements are in sync. The Intel Core 12th Gen processor enables your system to be that point of creation, ready to make your passion a reality.
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POV The Anti-Climax of Coming Out on Social Media and What it Taught Me About Queerness
Is my queerness invalidated by my lack of the conventional experiences expected of queer folks? Do I need to perform my queerness, or is the fact of it enough? Did I need to look and behave a certain way to meet some standard of queerness? A year into coming out, I’ve somewhat found the answers to these questions.
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Pop Culture Jugjugg Jeeyo review: Hits the Mark with Humour and Emotion
Jugjugg Jeeyo is a trademark Dharma film. Loud and boisterous, with a fantastic ensemble cast – especially the returning Neetu Kapoor - it follows familiar tropes too, but surprisingly packs in the kind of emotional punch that most, old-wines-in-new-bottles lack.
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Gender Navigating the Great Indian Workplace as a Woman
Workplaces are evolving, but as a working woman, it is nearly impossible to instinctively reach out for opportunities without evaluating the gendered risks of that leap.
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Features Venture beyond what is known
The life-force of creativity is innovation. With the Intel Core 12th Gen processor, take the first step into discovering new worlds and enhancing your creative experience.
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Pop Culture Masoom is a Gripping and Unsettling Story of Family Secrets and Lies
Masoom is fully committed to its mood and texture and more than the mystery, it is shouldered by the uncomfortable relationship between Boman Irani and his daughter, played by Samara Tijori.
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Modern Family Why My Father Made Sure His Invisible Disability Stayed Invisible
As we grow up, parents, whether intentionally or not, reveal to us a side of theirs that we’ve never seen before. But a large part of growing up comes with the understanding that they do so for our benefit.
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Pop Culture Ardh is a Fraction of What Rajpal Yadav Could have Been and Could still be
All the compromises show in Ardh, which nevertheless manages to rise above its constraints and show us a version of Rajpal Yadav we deserve to see more of.
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Features Materialize All Your Ambitions
Make every possibility a reality. With the Intel Core 12th Gen processor, your system is powered to handle multiple tasks with ease, so that you can do all your things, all at once.
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Social Commentary Layer’r Shot and the Advertising Men’s Club
Advertising has always been a men’s club, and the terminally offensive Shot ad exemplifies how an industry struggling for ideas, almost always turns to treating women as props.
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Social Commentary Depp vs Heard and the Toxicity of Fanbros
The Depp vs Heard trial is evidence of the kind of toxicity that most male public figures command by being both irreverent and partially toxic themselves.
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POV Samrat Prithviraj Review: Lacking in Scale, Imagination and Performance
You’re not going to out-craft Sanjay Leela Bhansali, so you’ll have to out-story him. Samrat Prithviraj does no such thing.
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People Nostalgia, College and Friends: How KK Helped me Adult
Because I grew up in the internet age, I discovered KK fairly late and yet I found in his voice, in his music, an instant resting place for everything that I found unsettling in life.
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People Sidhu Moose Wala’s Conflicting but Significant Musical Legacy
Moose Wala’s shocking death is probably the outcome of certain avoidable cultural tropes that have been allowed to simmer in Punjab but while the singer wasn’t always politically correct, his music travelled further than most.
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Pop Culture Anek Review: Raw, but Ultimately Rewarding to Watch
Anek isn’t perfect or even gainful in storytelling for most parts, but in mainstreaming a conversation about the North-East we seldom have, it serves the purpose of a trigger, our industry needs to explore and experiment.
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Social Commentary The ‘Babudom’ of our Bureaucrats Echoes a Colonial Mindset
The Thyagraj stadium incident in Delhi is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to members of the Indian Civil Services exploiting the systems they are appointed to uphold. Rather than behave as genial, humble citizens they behave like ‘babus’ with god complexes. But the problem is that we let them.
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Features Become a Creative Force with the help of Intel® Evo™ Laptops
Digital has become the new breeding ground for learning, creativity and exploration. But in this post-pandemic world none of it can be accomplished without the right computing power by your side. It’s here, in the form of the Intel® Evo™ based Laptops.
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People The Multiverse of Middle-Age Chemistry and How Neena Gupta Created it
Neena Gupta has over the last few years, done some incredible work but it is her chemistry with co-stars like Raghubir Yadav and Gajraj Rao, that has opened both our eyes and imagination to the possibility of romance and chemistry between middle-aged characters.
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Pop Culture Dhaakad Review: Kangana Ranaut Cannot Rescue this Stylish Yet Wasteful Thriller
In Dhaakad, Kangana Ranaut acts as a living, breathing, killing machine in a film that is too influenced by its western predecessors to have something of its own to say about a genre that we can only hope gets bigger and better.
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Technology Bengaluru’s Self-Claimed Culture of Innovation Cannot Rescue the City from Falling Apart
Considered the hub of innovation, Bengaluru’s infrastructural problems are at odds with every app-based solution its brightest minds try to sell as a ‘solution’ to a problem. Beneath its veil of ambitious, lip-smacking valuations, there is a creaking city waiting to be rescued.
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Pop Culture Here is why the Popularity of Ali Sethi’s Pasoori Matters
Ali Sethi’s Pasoori has become a social media sensation, so much so it inspired The New Yorker to frame him as some sort of a messiah uniting Indians and Pakistanis through art. While Sethi is by no stretch of the imagination the greatest or the first artist to be revered on both sides of the border, his rise through the latest chapter of cold politics on either side of the border, is important.
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POV Jayeshbhai Jordaar Review: A Loud Firecracker of a Film
Jayeshbhai Jordaar is everything you’d expect from a Ranveer Singh performance. But while the charms work, the film can often become too loud for its own good. That doesn’t, of course, make it not worth your time.
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Love and Sex Beyond People and Relationships: This is my Modern Love Story about Mumbai
Convention dictates that love manifests in terms of the people we choose to be with but for somebody like me, it is the freedom of not having or wanting to make that choice that has felt the more liberating. Like Prime Video’s ‘Raat Raani’ (part of Modern Love Mumbai) I have found love in moments, inanimate objects and the many ways Mumbai both challenges and supports you. For it is perhaps the only city where you can feel loved without being defined by it.
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POV Indigo, Discrimination and Raising A Special Needs Child: A Mother’s View
As the mother of a special needs child, the Indigo incident was triggering. For it brought back memories of the times where I have fought discrimination and societal ignorance to get my child to be treated fairly.
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POV Thar Review: Lots of Style, but Little Substance
Spectacular to look at, Thar sports a more than decent performance by Anil Kapoor. Everything else about the film though underwhelms.
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POV Dreamy Careers: How I Got Caught in the Vortex of ‘Following Your Passion’
Being passionate about my work has helped me navigate the worst of times, but lately, my career feels like a never-ending maze. It makes me wonder if chasing my passion was even worth it in the first place.
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Social Commentary Surviving the Indian Summer as a Sanskari Woman
Every summer, women in India have to contend with ball-scratching, banyan-wearing men either telling them what to wear or leering at them long enough to force them into covering every inch of their burning skin. The body politics of this latest heatwave is a burden only women will be made to carry.
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Pop Culture Runway 34 Review: Doesn’t Land as Well as it Could Have
Ajay Devgn stars and directs this latest film about a miraculous plane landing. But what is a good premise to begin with is eventually wasted in this caricaturist portrayal of a near accident and the intrigue surrounding it.
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Pop Culture Rocketry: The Nambi Effect is a Middling Biopic Bar Madhavan’s Commitment
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, thanks to a committed Madhavan is one of those films that you don’t really feel like criticising too much, and yet there’s little about it that outlasts its runtime.
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