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Quick time, slow time

A few days later, the lockdown was declared. Despite the starkness of the times, time became, not a luxury, but luxurious ...

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Mixed doubles

There is no confusion of seeing your own face reflected in the enemy’s face if he is masked. Self and others are poles, not a tangle ...

14.04.2024 8

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Fear of flying

Cut to 2024. The film’s flight attendant protagonists have not received their salaries for six months Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

07.04.2024 9

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INSAF ki dagar pe

The slogan invoked identities and histories currently facing repression from entire national and global systems Illustration/Uday...

31.03.2024 10

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Airplanes, chor bazaars and Bangkok jugaad

One of my companions learned from a stall owner that some sellers in the market were children of sex workers from around the area and this was now a...

24.03.2024 10

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A bar on Hooker Hill

The thrill of arrival into a dreamscape soon turns to restlessness for that other romance, of the unexpected encounter. ...

17.03.2024 40

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Does Women’s Day matter?

The first three responses are perhaps more about the marketplace than Women’s Day—and reveal a greater relationship with that market than feminism...

10.03.2024 10

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The DIY love project

“Bas followers milein” says Mithu. “Followers will come with good content,” quips Manasi, implying Mithu is anything but ...

03.03.2024 10

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The picnic life

After dinner, we might be treated to an orange bar from the ice-cream carts. An ordinary day became a moon-lit ditty ...

25.02.2024 6

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Mann ki bhadaas

“What was the movie you compared to expensive shapeless Goa dresses in your stories” someone asked me Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

18.02.2024 10

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Love is its own civil code

Rather, it is about blaming freedom for violence and creating an opportunity to increase scrutiny and control of individuals. ...

11.02.2024 10

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The steely charm of Feminists

Then they say, “Accha anyway”, yaniki ignore your moaning and somehow you find yourself embroiled in their endeavours, complaining bhi, loving it...

04.02.2024 10

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Power. Struggle.

So, when, say, women’s lives most resemble men’s, or queer lives are most recognisably like straight lives, we applaud their power or achievement ...

28.01.2024 30

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I’ll meet you at Wheeler’s

How many ways we’d be saying, we’re together, what fun, even if we’d met just two days ago! Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

21.01.2024 7

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The Vanishing Lie-o-metre or what I learned from KWK S8

That male domination displayed itself fully in an episode featuring Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor in Season 3, replete with bro-jokes and an inherently...

14.01.2024 8

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Adventures in upholstery

In a proper middle-class life, a sofa set is both destiny and destination and matching is a requirement. I did not want to fall into its clutches....

07.01.2024 30

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The attention of friends

But for some of my friends, it has been a time when the stoicism of their previous years has flowered into thrilling achievement ...

31.12.2023 20

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Perfect disconnection ya passionate kisses?

When you proceed so indifferently, you do not make any difference. That’s how you keep the status quo safe.  Illustration/Uday...

24.12.2023 10

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Just a little tenderness

We know the burglar also as a tailor, foolish but beset by poverty, navigating a rickety path between debt and desire. Everyone has many realities. ...

17.12.2023 10

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Kuch (mazedar) nahin hota hai

The inevitable sweetness of youth is used to simulate this, but is absent in the construction of the work. Illustration/Uday Mohite...

10.12.2023 10

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#OrryNotSorry

Facts that circulate about Orry all seem to originate with him. Their plentiful selfies suggest friendship between Orry and Ananya Pandey ...

03.12.2023 20

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Do you think you are beautiful?

The outer world keeps trying to deny our whimsy and our marzi with its thin-lipped yes and no options. Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

26.11.2023 10

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Tinder swindlers, Bumble tumbles and jilted exes

“Jaanums and khanums” said the Hyderabad RJ, “the government has issued warnings—don’t give money to people you meet on dating apps.” ...

19.11.2023 10

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Sweets revenge

When my friend returned, I was in the US. “Courier them to Bombay” I texted. Illustration/Uday Mohite My friend V asked me:...

12.11.2023 20

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AQI kya hai

That is correct, because the best things in life are free, mera matlab hai green. Illustration/Uday Mohite I’ve spent the last...

05.11.2023 10

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Naming the dead

The act of naming is an epic stand in the face of  name-calling. Zionists have called Palestinians animals, rabid dogs, people of darkness—a...

29.10.2023 10

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The mind games of the media

The phrase “weapons of mass destruction” was the actual weapon of mass destruction in the end, as we too dangerously forget. Illustration/Uday...

22.10.2023 10

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Apna bhidu’s apnapan

Thirty years of Khalnayak, premiere of a film, friend’s son’s wedding, he is there with the potted plant.  Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

15.10.2023 20

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Food and accommodation

We co-exist by overcoming ourselves—the smell of tea, the smell of food, the taste of friendship, our political and moral tendencies. ...

09.10.2023 8

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Humans of interest

Could Uma consider one A Suitable Boy? Or, have Uma’s parents made this account with faltu specs thus, inviting suitors in suits who suit them, not...

01.10.2023 10

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Dev Anand’s dreamy modernity

Simultaneously exuberant and moody, he was made up almost entirely of style Illustration/Uday Mohite How did you think you could...

24.09.2023 10

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Trends that ain’t your friends

As we grew older, we even developed a jaunty relationship with trends Illustration/Uday Mohite Some times I am forced to ask...

17.09.2023 10

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Who’s your daddy?

His name Azad, recalls Amitabh Bacchan’s Main Azad Hoon. A Sanjay Dutt cameo recalls Munna Bhai Illustration/Uday Mohite With...

10.09.2023 10

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