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Save Us From Superheroes
The superhero is truly dead. What started out with a bang with Daredevil and Jessica Jones, ended with a whimper with Luke Cage and Iron Fist. And you only have yourselves to blame.
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A Day in the Life of Delhi’s Rohingya Refugee
The controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to provide citizenship to persecuted minority refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, thousands of Rohingya Muslims, a minority in Myanmar who've fled genocide, continue to live in inhuman conditions across the country.
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Why Women Need to Stop Being Polite to Predators and Creeps
Growing up, we women have been repeatedly led to believe that our own sense of being lies at the lowest rung of the ladder; that we must respect and bow before everybody but ourselves. So what if a stranger elbowed my breast? I am not going to disrupt an entire auto line over it, right?
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These Scars Don’t Fade
Kashmir’s longest ever curfew has ended. The pellet guns are silent, but the wounds are not easy to heal. Mir Suhail’s cartoons bear testimony to the scars of his homeland.
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Why Delhi Belly is the Most Accurate Representation of India’s Millennials
In a sea of formulaic youth-oriented films like Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Wake Up Sid that sugar-coated the lives of the youth, Delhi Belly stood out for how rooted it felt to reality. In real life, bachelors don’t live, they survive. And Delhi Belly accurately represented it.
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What JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts Can Learn From Our Ichhadhari Naagins
As Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald releases, we finally see the much-hyped Nagini – and she is underwhelming. Should just have asked us, JK Rowling, we’re the experts in poorly CGI’d shape-shifting snakes.
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5 Questions We Wish Oprah Winfrey Had Asked Priyanka Chopra
The last time Oprah Winfrey was in the news, it was for the bombshell interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. So when we heard she was talking to Priyanka Chopra Jonas next, we expected some pressing questions. But like the actress’s new book, the interview felt somewhat unfinished.
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The Brutal Murder of Kung Fu and Yoga
It took all of 90 minutes for Jackie Chan and Sonu Sood to team up and eradicate the ancient practices of kung fu and yoga.
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Is Going Blonde The Secret to My Success?
The perfect hair colour is like a unicorn, just as mythical. Usually you fall between “Are you fucking mad?” or “I can’t see a thing”. But the secret to a woman's success is going blonde. At least that's what Google tells me.
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A New Emergency: Is India In the Middle of a Massive Education Crisis?
India is saddled with an education system that is a vestige of Britain’s industrial revolution, which churns out efficient workers, not innovative thinkers. If analyses from UNICEF and NASSCOM are to be believed, the bulk of our graduates are unemployable. We’re a country desperately in need of education reforms.