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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…
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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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Say No to Year-End Lists
You could have won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and still on 30th December 2023, while sitting down to list your achievements think, “Yaar, but I didn’t go…
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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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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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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.
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Falling in Love
A short story.
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Endings, and Beginnings
A quick dispatch from the sea as the year ends.
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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…
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A Non-Essential List of Essential Joys
"Sometimes reality is so dire that no amount of eloquence can salvage it. So, allow me the indulgence, dear reader, of describing the current moment …
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Notes from Grief-istan
Trigger warning: Distressing country.
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Memory
A short note on Mughals, histories, and the stories we forget.
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