Vaishna Roy

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Dakota Johnson as protagonist Anne Elliot in a still from ‘Persuasion’.

Persuasion’s faux ‘inclusiveness’ is culturally insulting

A new house in Arya Puri, Muzaffarnagar district, for a rehabilitated family. The house incorporates the classic archways and verandah and makes room for the all-important ‘khats’ (cots).

A new book looks at the rehabilitation of Muzaffarnagar riot victims

Cocktails in the colours of the Ukraine flag

Puff parade is on the march

A view of Binny Mills

Chennai’s iconic Binny Mills now becomes an accompaniment for art

Inventing Anna. Julia Garner as Anna Delvery in episode 104 of Inventing Anna. Cr. Nicole Rivelli/Netflix © 2021 Vaishna Roy column

The Holy Hoax

Students protest after Karnataka asked girls at government-run high schools in the state not to wear the hijab

Saying it with symbols

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. File

A feminist manifesto

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Miss India Harnaaz Sandhu after being crowned as Miss Universe

The burden of beauty

‘The princely States were an ingredient in building the case for nationalism’: Manu S. Pillai

Fist male hand, proletarian protest symbol. Power sign. Weekend

C for ‘civil’, not ‘criminal’

Eddies: Daily life in Stonetown, Zanzibar.

The still, silent heart: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s ‘Afterlives’ reviewed by Vaishna Roy

Credit: Mihir Balantrapu

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