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Satire | The delights of Diwali

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This year, I bet my patriotic pop was louder than yours
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Fem, fumble, fall down

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It’s not elementary, my dear social media

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Let’s call it a shovel

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Happy birthday to you, too

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What is a 'Western' human right versus an 'Indian' human right? Are Indians lesser humans? Are we tougher?, asks the columnist

Piecing together the current political rhetoric

How young is too young for consensual sex?

Is revenge the only answer in Jammu and Kashmir?

“It’s impossible to talk to the first and second set, but it would be wonderful if the third set decided to see again,” writes the columnist.
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Is India a nation of such little empathy as to accept the quasi Emergency imposed on Kashmir?

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“I don’t exactly see myself farming, but I’ve thought often this year of how pleasant it would be to get off the track, feel less hustled. I wonder what exactly I mean by that,” writes the columnist.

Slow is a four-letter word

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“From being one of those precious gadgets we extracted from the Godrej almirah just before summer vacation, [the camera’] is now an extension almost of our limbs,” writes the columnist

Life lived only through a view-finder

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This is Tamil Nadu, where people burn themselves to express solidarity with a film star

'Sarkar' vs 'Vada Chennai': From on-screen charisma to off-screen power

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Burnout and butter biscuits

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“Why do women find it so difficult, even harrowing, to freeze someone down even when there is no adverse consequence to it?” asks our columnist.

#MeToo in India: A revolution is not a dinner party

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Protesters demonstrate against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh outside the US Supreme Court on October 03, 2018 in Washington, DC.

In the theatre of men's lives, women are the props

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Serena Williams in conversation with referee Brian Earley during the women's final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament against Naomi Osaka, of Japan, in New York.

From Tamil soaps to Serena

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Who wants white papers when videos will do?

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Those scales and blindfolds are so 60s

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The misogyny in the matrilineal Malayalee society

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Netflix’s 'Lust Stories' and what it tells us about desire in real life

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Is ‘Veere di Wedding’ a feminist film?

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Besides that one famous scene…

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Give us this day our daily bread

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Waiter! There’s a fly in my holy water

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