Short story: Those who were less charitable, pointed out that perhaps it was all the doing of Bharat Pradhan’s scriptwriters who believed that renouncing the…
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Category: Culture
Teen Reality: Laid Bare
‘Adolescence’ is a mirror which we just can’t ignore By Aayushi Rana I sat down and watched the much-talked-about series Adolescence. This is not a…
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That mysterious force inside us…
What are these marks on the wall? A doodle? A diagram? Does thisinscrutable drawing, if we can call it one, say something? Is there a…
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Lampblack doodle and a detective connecting dots
‘I set the story in the 1940s. When one could still hear in the middle of the night the bells of mail-runners in the distance.…
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Polls in Canada: So, whatever happened to the G-Word?
What’s striking is not just the evasion, but its elegance: a campaign that appears committed to human rights while deferring their application; a stage that…
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Symphony of Flavours and Spice: The Pickle Makers of Kashmir
‘People love the rich flavors, the bright colours, the exquisite taste, that reminds them of home,” says Musaib. In Kashmir, pickles belong to an inherited…
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Masculinity’s IMPLOSION Haunts Adolescence
In Adolescence, Eddie’s father is not cruel. He is lost. He offers proximity, not intimacy. Love, not comprehension. This is not a crime story. It is…
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BOMBS TO BEAUTY: Every piece tells a story
What happens to bombs after they land? Some explode. Some don’t, leaving behind a deadly legacy of war, but now the remnants of conflict and…
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‘Dressing to kill could kill the planet’
Fast fashion is accelerating an environmental catastrophe, with the equivalent of one garbage truck’s worth of clothing either incinerated or sent to landfill every second,…
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The Catharsis of Caricature
If people can’t have catharsis using dissent and caricature, they are doomed to rot in a repressed state of permanent morbidity. If you can’t take…
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