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Endings, and Beginnings
A quick dispatch from the sea as the year ends.
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Envy
We know it. We try hard to rise above it. It still finds us. But what if, it’s not all that bad? In which I confront the gnawing feeling of jealousy …
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Bodies, Bodies, Bodies
What does it mean to live in your body? I try and answer that with the help of Jasprit Bumrah, women runners, and Shanta Gokhale.
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A Woman’s Freedom
In Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light,” freedom is the ultimate desire. And Mumbai, the lover that promises it all.
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Edgy
Forget criticising society’s suffocation. Today’s edgy comedy tightens the noose, asks you to think of the suffocation as a radical act, and insists you…
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Trust / Vishwas
Our ability to trust might be the defining quality of how we live in the world. But what is trust? How do you differentiate it from plain old naivete…
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Democracy Is Like That Only
In the run-up to 2024 elections, democracy was one election away from having a formal obituary written for it. Instead a perennially wise janta said…
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What's Usually Left Out
What's Usually Left Out
Weekly essays on opinions which don't make the news, deep-dives into popular culture, and the occasional fiction. Plus, best links on the Internet.

What's Usually Left Out

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