Posted inLove and Sex
The Bewitching Charm of Toxic Men
Fluent in the language of mindfuck and mixed signals, the toxic dude is adept at camouflaging as the failsafe mysterious boy. Why do we continue to seek them out?
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Thar Review: Lots of Style, but Little Substance
Spectacular to look at, Thar sports a more than decent performance by Anil Kapoor. Everything else about the film though underwhelms.
Posted inBollywood
What Yash Chopra’s Dharmputra Teaches About Calling Out Bigotry
For many anti-CAA protesters, the resistance is also about standing up to the bigotry of family and friends. It’s imperative how Dharmputra, a film made over five decades ago, has an answer for it: call out objectionable views regardless of who holds them.
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Lessons in Life From Nick Kyrgios
Kyrgios is hard to like and maybe even harder to respect, but in a world full of perfectionists and achievers doling out career lessons, he stands for doing less or not doing it at all. It's something we can use being told from time to time.
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Assam Citizen’s List: Are We Out of Ideas on Tackling Migration?
What Assam and the rest of the world need is a new idea – or a new messiah that reminds its people of values beyond consumption and per capita income. One that can remind its people that once you’ve achieved the means and wealth to cover your needs and some luxuries, it is alright to let others, less privileged, brown or black, Syrian or Bangladeshi, to have a go at it.
Posted inBollywood
15 years of Bunty Aur Babli: An Ode to Small-Town India Before It Was Cool
Bunty Aur Babli was Bollywood’s first taste of a new success formula: the wholesome, quirky small-town romance, replicated in films like Dum Laga Ke Haisha and Bareilly Ki Barfi. It painted a clear picture of how small-town India was pushed to the extreme to live out a cut-rate version of the Great American Dream.
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Steve Smith is No Monster – In the New, Conscience-Free Version of Cricket
We need a new breed of cricketer for the new, callous version of the gentleman’s game. Ball tampering is only the start. Steve Smiths of the future will resort to all-out sabotage, even leaving chilly powder in their opponents’ crotch guards before the game.
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टिंडर वाले बाबू मेरा खाता चला दो!
मैं इस बार टिंडर पे “open mind” लेके गया था - Sapiosexual भी हूँ, 420 पे छल्ले भी उड़ाता हूँ, कुत्ते के साथ फ़ोटो भी है, और बुलेट पे लद्दाख जाने का सपना भी । पर मेरी टिंडर मैच को दिखा, तो बस मेरा PayTM अकाउंट और तुम्हें पता है मैंने वो हक़ सिर्फ़ मोदीजी और जैक माँ को दे रखा है ।
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What Makes Netanyahu India’s Second-Favourite PM?
The first rock star to visit India in 2018, isn’t even a musician. For the patriotic Indian crowd, Netanyahu is a bigger deal than Coldplay and Justin Bieber combined.
Posted inPop Culture
HBO’s Chernobyl Warns Us About the Disasters of Propaganda & State-Sponsored Truths
It is impossible to watch HBO’s Chernobyl without one unsettling question gnawing away at your intellect: Could the worst nuclear accident in the history of humankind have been averted if documents containing vital information about structural damages and flaws in the design of the reactor hadn’t been redacted? The answer is almost too awful to contemplate.