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Exclusive: Priyankuh Chopruh Steals the Red Carpet at Emmys. Literally.
Priyankuh Chopruh’s gown at the Emmy awards was similar to the fabric of the red carpet. W&B investigate.
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Walrus Moustache, Mundu & Metal Watch: The Vanishing Style of the Malayali Man
The virtuous austerity of Malayali men is the formal middle style – conceited neither in flamboyance nor in simplicity; serious but not boorish; casual but not loose. The middle style is a time-honoured Malayali respectability, alas one waning under a global monoculture.
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Love in the Age of IPL: How to Date a Cricket-Crazed Fan
If you find yourself on a date with a cricket fan, you just have to fake it ’til you make it. Here’s how to impress potential soulmates, despite thinking that a Googly is a type of search engine, and a bouncer is that beefed-up guy outside the bar.
Posted inPop Culture
“Winterfell” is the Perfect Appetiser for the Final Season of Game of Thrones
If Game of Thrones were a rock band, then the premiere episode “Winterfell” (and hopefully the rest of this season), will serve as a “Greatest Hits” compilation. When Thrones first emerged in 2011, the world was a different place. Now that the show has become the pop culture juggernaut of our time, are we ready for a world without it?
Posted inPop Culture
Riverdale: Where Happy Childhoods Go To Die
The creative director of Archie Comics has ruined our childhoods with the “gritty reboot” of our beloved American comic book.
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Making Board Games Great Again
The sight of people engrossed in games like Monopoly, UNO, Jenga, and Cards Against Humanity over a drink or two in their favourite cafes has become a familiar one. Spread the news: Board games are cool again.
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Who Made You the Fashion Police of the Met Gala?
Aside from squealing over Baby Taimur’s adorable dessert-themed playsuits, most of us don’t know anything about fashion. But on a few special nights of the year, like the Met Gala, even the most fashionably challenged among us become a leading authority on French couture.
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Smoke Trees & Raise Kids: How Marijuana Can Improve the Experience of Being a Mother
I wish someone had introduced me to weed on those nights I spent prowling around Haryana like a disoriented panther looking for my children. Think about it: If I was high, and Shardul announced right after his Grade XII exams that he wants to be a truck driver, I probably wouldn’t lose my temper.
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Until Deportation Do Us Apart
A hint of scandal accompanies the romances between young Goan men and older expat women. But then aren’t all affairs, a little bit of love, a little bit of lies?
Posted inLove and Sex
Fantastic Bisexual Characters and Where to Find Them in Indian Cinema
Watching queer characters on screen helped me alleviate some of my queer anxiety. Radha and Sita from Fire, are not the only bisexual characters portrayed on Indian screens. There’s the almost-marriage in Four More Shots Please! and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety is as queer as they come.