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Can We Please Cancel No Shave November?
It’s Movember, the time of year when people on social media begin rabbiting on about moustaches. The campaign’s money-raising bit, however, is completely lost on desi hipsters.
Posted inPop Culture
The Gawker-Hulk Hogan Smackdown
Why has Gawker shut down? We tell you in our main event for the evening - 1,000 words of nitro-fuelled, power-packed entertainment.
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Pataakha Review: What Vishal Bhardwaj Gets Right About Sisterly Love
Sisters are each other’s strength and weakness – you can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Vishal Bhardwaj’s Pataakha understands this language of sisterhood, where throwing abuses, insults, and jabs at each other is par for the course.
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Tere Do Takeyan Di Naukri: Why You Need to Stop Chasing Your Dream Job
A generation of millennials like me, has grown up on the belief that if we “do what we love, we’ll never have to work a day in our lives”. But here’s the thing we forget while we’re busy chasing the job that’s supposed to shit rainbows and unicorns: The bills aren’t going to pay themselves. It’s time we stopped romanticising work.
Posted inTechnology
How Fantasy Sports Games Like Dream11 Could Help Curb Illegal Betting
To anyone unfamiliar with Dream11, it isn’t just a fantasy sports game in which you can win money. It’s a mood, a thing to fight with friends over. Plus, according to a recent SC ruling, it’s completely legal!
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10 Years After Jaane Tu… We Check in on Meow and Rats
By the end of Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na, Meow and Rats left us with all kinds of #CoupleGoals. But whatever happened to feisty Aditi and chocolatey Jai post the end credits of the film?
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The World According to Joker: The Dark Knight Predicted the Future a Decade Ago
Ten years ago, a movie made sense of the chaos around us. Its most astute character was not the hero Batman, but the film’s arch-villain, The Joker. When he said “The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules,” you know he was prophesying the future.
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The Celebrity Death Syndrome: Mortality on Our Minds
Death happens. We ignore it, if we can. When we can’t, as is in the case of celebrities like Sridevi or a loved one, we rush deep into denial, frantically looking for scapegoats to explain the freak occurrence. And then we move on.
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Zomato Can Guarantee Halal Meat, But it Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Guarantee the Religion of its Delivery Execs
Ensuring food is prepared according to your order is Zomato’s responsibility. Ensuring the delivery driver’s religion meets up with your regressive criteria for whom you will accept food from, is not their responsibility. Got it? Good.
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Love All: Why We Need a Pride Heart Emoji
Like hieroglyphics and cave drawings, the popularity of the emoji is a testament to how much we love to speak in cute little pictures. But like every language, even emoji needs an update – let’s start with the Pride heart emoji.