Toilet: Ek Bhakt Ki Katha
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Toilet: Ek Bhakt Ki Katha

Instead of being a satire that could goad people into understanding the sanitation crisis in India, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is a dishonest, factually incorrect love letter to Narendra Modi.
“A Face-Mask Will Do Me Good”: What We Get Wrong about “Self-Care”
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“A Face-Mask Will Do Me Good”: What We Get Wrong about “Self-Care”

I have unscrupulously indulged in shopping for clothes because “it made me feel better”, spent extravagantly on meals because “I was having a good time” and bought expensive hair products as “an investment in my future self”. I was slowly but surely haemorrhaging my bank account under the guise of “self-care”, yet I wasn’t feeling any good.
The Sad Demise of the Greeting Card
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The Sad Demise of the Greeting Card

The greeting card’s contemporaries, like Phantom cigarettes and board games have been canonised as priceless relics of our past. But the humble card has unfortunately missed its spot in listicles that “Only ’90s Kids Will Get!”