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India’s Angry Poet and Other Stories
While CP Surendran’s early work could be seen as the walk away, in his new poems he firmly occupies the inside of the fence, and looks prepared to observe and contemplate.
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Disability Day: When Your Prosthetic Leg is a “Security Threat”
I have a prosthetic leg, which makes me a security threat. Every time I go through an airport scanner, it beeps maniacally, like I’m a ticking 9/11 waiting to happen.
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Two Deaf Lovers & a Caste System: A Story from Haryana
Sushil Mahla and Neelam Rani are hearing- and speech-impaired, but are grateful for their disabilities. In Haryana, their relationship wouldn’t have transcended the fiercely defended boundaries of caste had they been “normal”.
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Knock Knock, Your Parcel’s Here
Whizzing around Mumbai’s gallis are the delivery boys – foot soldiers of a $16.4 billion e-commerce boom. Arré rides pillion with one, delivering everything from cupcakes to quinoa.
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Widowed by English
What stands between the reunion of 22-year-old Jashan Waraich and her husband in Canada? An English test.
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Farewell, Alyque Padamsee, the Original Mad Man of Mumbai
Alyque Padamsee donned many hats: Actor, theatre director, ad-man. In the Mad Men-like world of Indian advertising in the ’80s and ’90s, Padamsee was the masala version of Don Draper. The man who gave us the “Liril girl” was nothing short of a god in advertising.
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There’s Something about Sylvia
In "Rustom", Sylvia Nanavati is portrayed as a repentant wife, awash with tears. But the real Sylvia would not be relegated to the role of the adulteress.
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Grief and the Comfort of Strangers
When my brother died in a car accident, I couldn’t bear to be around friends and family. My only relief was talking to a complete stranger, a person I’d never met and didn’t know.
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Swipe Right if You Like My Mutt!
Why is everyone on Tinder suddenly so hell-bent on cuddling, caressing, or smooching animals? Call me old-fashioned, but I miss the bicep flexing.
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Here’s Why Mumbai Takes a Dump by the Sea
At a fishing village in Mumbai’s upscale Bandra, there is a Sulabh shauchalaya, where the neighbourhood queues up as early as 4 am. If you’re lucky your “turn” may come by 6 or 7 am.