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A few days later, the lockdown was declared. Despite the starkness of the times, time became, not a luxury, but luxurious ...
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 ...
Cut to 2024. The film’s flight attendant protagonists have not received their salaries for six months Illustration/Uday Mohite ...
The slogan invoked identities and histories currently facing repression from entire national and global systems Illustration/Uday...
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...
The thrill of arrival into a dreamscape soon turns to restlessness for that other romance, of the unexpected encounter. ...
The first three responses are perhaps more about the marketplace than Women’s Day—and reveal a greater relationship with that market than feminism...
“Bas followers milein” says Mithu. “Followers will come with good content,” quips Manasi, implying Mithu is anything but ...
After dinner, we might be treated to an orange bar from the ice-cream carts. An ordinary day became a moon-lit ditty ...
“What was the movie you compared to expensive shapeless Goa dresses in your stories” someone asked me Illustration/Uday Mohite ...
Rather, it is about blaming freedom for violence and creating an opportunity to increase scrutiny and control of individuals. ...
Then they say, “Accha anyway”, yaniki ignore your moaning and somehow you find yourself embroiled in their endeavours, complaining bhi, loving it...
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 ...
How many ways we’d be saying, we’re together, what fun, even if we’d met just two days ago! Illustration/Uday Mohite ...
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...
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....
But for some of my friends, it has been a time when the stoicism of their previous years has flowered into thrilling achievement ...
When you proceed so indifferently, you do not make any difference. That’s how you keep the status quo safe. Illustration/Uday...
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. ...
The inevitable sweetness of youth is used to simulate this, but is absent in the construction of the work. Illustration/Uday Mohite...
Facts that circulate about Orry all seem to originate with him. Their plentiful selfies suggest friendship between Orry and Ananya Pandey ...
The outer world keeps trying to deny our whimsy and our marzi with its thin-lipped yes and no options. Illustration/Uday Mohite ...
“Jaanums and khanums” said the Hyderabad RJ, “the government has issued warnings—don’t give money to people you meet on dating apps.” ...
When my friend returned, I was in the US. “Courier them to Bombay” I texted. Illustration/Uday Mohite My friend V asked me:...
That is correct, because the best things in life are free, mera matlab hai green. Illustration/Uday Mohite I’ve spent the last...
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...
The phrase “weapons of mass destruction” was the actual weapon of mass destruction in the end, as we too dangerously forget. Illustration/Uday...
Thirty years of Khalnayak, premiere of a film, friend’s son’s wedding, he is there with the potted plant. Illustration/Uday Mohite ...
We co-exist by overcoming ourselves—the smell of tea, the smell of food, the taste of friendship, our political and moral tendencies. ...
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...
Simultaneously exuberant and moody, he was made up almost entirely of style Illustration/Uday Mohite How did you think you could...
As we grew older, we even developed a jaunty relationship with trends Illustration/Uday Mohite Some times I am forced to ask...
His name Azad, recalls Amitabh Bacchan’s Main Azad Hoon. A Sanjay Dutt cameo recalls Munna Bhai Illustration/Uday Mohite With...