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Innocent Mothers, Dancing Girls
The latest arsenal in online gender wars is the "innocent mother,” often positioned against “dancing girls.” But what about the pyaar-hua-ikraar-hua…
Apr 20
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December 2024
Endings, and Beginnings
A quick dispatch from the sea as the year ends.
Dec 30, 2024
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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 …
Dec 15, 2024
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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.
Dec 1, 2024
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November 2024
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.
Nov 23, 2024
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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…
Nov 18, 2024
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September 2024
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…
Sep 8, 2024
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June 2024
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…
Jun 8, 2024
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May 2024
That Thing Called Hope
What do dating apps, the news, and Albert Camus have in common? The key to finding hope in times of despair.
May 5, 2024
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April 2024
Kitchen Confessions
How a subsistence-level-cook looks at the world of those who cook for enjoyment and routine with awe, fascination, and maybe a little regret.
Apr 28, 2024
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Cool Women
Trad wife is boring old anti-feminist wine in an aesthetic bottle. But, its popularity with young Gen Z women in India reveals a failure of our feminist…
Apr 21, 2024
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The To-Do List Tyranny
A recent viral tweet about a tech investor using Notion to “manage” his marriage reminded me of the oft-felt impulse to throw away my (many) to-do…
Apr 14, 2024
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