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Arré Checklist: Ms Overfriendly & Other Oddities of My School Reunion
Each reunion I attend begins with hope and ends with a headache – and a promise that I will never, ever hang out with these high-school losers again.
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Jab Main Office Baccha Tha Badi Shararat Karta Tha
Are you at that phase of your career when expectation levels are at zero and indulgence levels are set to max? Enjoy it. Save the existential angst for later in your career. The days of this happy, consequence-free existence that you’re too ignorant to enjoy right now, are numbered.
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“to hate/ is an easy lazy thing”: Why You Simply Can’t Ignore Rupi Kaur & Her Instagram Poetry
It’s easy to hate on Rupi Kaur. Social media is replete with mockery of her work. Yet her fame has only augmented over the years. She has sold millions of copies around the world and given several TED talks. So what keeps people coming back for more?
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Aamchi Kaali Peeli
Everything has a use-by date. And Mumbai’s kaali peelis might have passed that date in an Uber’d and Ola’d city.
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Ruskin Bond, the Storyteller Who Made Us Fall in Love with the Mountains
It’s hard to beat the nostalgia that the mountain air brings with it. Maybe it’s the majesty of rolling peaks and valleys. Or maybe we have Ruskin Bond to thank for the romanticisation of these hilly havens with their winding roads, sky-high deodar trees, and rhododendron shrubs
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The Wind Will Carry You, Abbas Kiarostami
Kiarostami’s films didn’t remind me of particular incidents from my own youth, but they revived the sensory and emotional experiences of childhood.
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Nirmal Verma: Extraordinary Writer of the Ordinary
It has been 12 years since Nirmal Verma passed away. The novelist did not write characters. He wrote people: The ones who got left behind, the ones who were forgotten by the magnetic narratives of the city.
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No Child’s Play: The Controversial Life of Eight-Year-Old Activist Licypriya Kangujam
Manipur’s Licypriya Kangujam caught the attention of mainstream media after she turned down Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to join the Women’s Day campaign. Now she and her father have been accused of exaggerating her achievements.
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The Last Brigade Call
On June 11, two firemen will raise a toast in honour of their brave mentor, who would’ve turned 51, if not for a deadly blaze.
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Gone Too Soon at 95, Ram Jethmalani
Maverick, temperamental, eccentric, non-conformist, the permanent dissenter... There are lots of adjectives used for Ram Jethmalani. In my interactions with him, he was none of it. He was only a man who had utmost belief in himself and what he did.