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India, Notes From the Bright Side
Pessimism pervades the end of 2016. But as our resilience during large-scale transformation in the past indicates, the future won't be awful. All we need is some cautious optimism.
Posted inFeatures
Monsoon Drive: The Detox We City Folks Desperately Need
2020 may have begun on a glum note, but it’s never too late to change. And the monsoon may be a good time. There’s nothing that a long drive in the rain can’t fix.
Posted inBollywood
Kaamyaab Review: Sanjay Mishra is Phenomenal in this Flawless Movie About the Movies
Hardik Mehta’s Kamyaab is filmmaking at its very best: an affecting acknowledgement of the innumerable artists in Bollywood, whose talent is constrained by an industry that treats them as disposable goods despite their indispensability. It’s also a boisterous love-letter to Sanjay Mishra, an actor who has never demanded the spotlight even when he deserved it.
Posted inPop Culture
Guilty Review: The Netflix Movie Wants To Make a #MeToo Statement But Doesn’t Know How To
Netflix’s Guilty, which traces the investigation of a rape accusation made on Twitter, had the opportunity to stand out as a film that explores the changing nature of consent in a post #MeToo world. It squanders that chance and instead tells us a story told far too many times – that rape survivors are often disbelieved.
Posted inPeople
Inside the Minds of India’s Death Row Convicts
Law professor Anup Surendranath started the Death Penalty Project to understand how prisoners are sentenced to death. His interviews with death row convicts might have changed him forever.
Posted inVice
The Electric Kool-Aid Nutmeg Test
Internet forums are rife with references to the hallucinogenic muscle relaxant in nutmeg. Since it involved a psychedelic experience, I plunged right in.
Posted inFirst Person
40 Till I Die! How I Plan to Take the Pressure Off Middle Age
As I near my 40th birthday, I have realised that I am neither the sort to go crazy with champagne, nor be forlorn and regretful. So I’m celebrating “The Year of Magical Doing”, where I prioritise writing letters, reading short stories, collecting recipes – basically, doing everything I loved as a kid.
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102 Not Out: Rishtey Mein Toh Hum Tumhare Baap Lagte Hain, Kaam Hai Nagging
In a culture that still relies on the problematic viewing of children as their parents' property, 102 Not Out encourages pressurising the younger generation into fulfilling dual obligations of being both a caregiver and caretaker at the peak of their youth.
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Why We Must Think Twice Before Having Children
Consider Earth to be a sinking ship, the immersion of which is accelerated by more and more people jumping on board. What do we seek by reproducing? Why don’t we address the elephant in the room: Procreation?
Posted inPop Culture
Hey Gen Y, Can You Please Cut Snapchat Some Slack?
Snapchat exemplifies everything that’s different between millennials and Gen Y. It’s created for a generation that has abandoned the term “brb” because its never offline.