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Aug 29, 2021

Sarfarosh: How To Make A Movie About Terrorism Without Being Islamophobic

Peter Benchley wrote Jaws. It was about a shark attacking people of a town. Spielberg adapted it into a blockbuster movie. The movie is credited with triggering many shark hunts and pushing the creature to the brink of extinction. It gained notoriety as the ‘Jaws’ effect. …

Bollywood

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Sarfarosh: How To Make A Movie About Terrorism Without Being Islamophobic
Sarfarosh: How To Make A Movie About Terrorism Without Being Islamophobic

Jul 23, 2021

It’s Just a Joke Only If You Ignore Everything Else

We, stand-up comedians, are a weird bunch. On one hand, we want the mantle of speaking the truth to the power. On the other hand, we want amnesty from the fallout of the jokes by saying — It’s just a joke. One may call us hypocrites and like most people…

Comedy

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It’s Just a Joke Only If You Ignore Everything Else
It’s Just a Joke Only If You Ignore Everything Else

May 10, 2021

What Kind of Pride Do We Need?

There seem to be two kinds of pride. Let’s call them Pride-I and Pride-II. Pride-I says you are superior to others. This one doesn’t need you to introspect. What’s the need for it? You can’t have flaws, you’re already great. Any person that points flaws in you is automatically wrong…

Philosophy

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What Kind of Pride Do We Need?
What Kind of Pride Do We Need?

Feb 24, 2021

How Hurt Religious Sentiments Work?

A WhatsApp Family Group Conversation That Might As Well Be Our Country — How It Started After the death of a family member due to Covid, and the subsequent hospitalization of another family member, I joined a few family WhatsApp groups for broadcasting health updates. I could’ve left after my family recovered, but I noticed some staggering forwards. Communal posts like ‘Bollywood Ka Islamikaran’ ( Translation…

Religion

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How Hurt Religious Sentiments Work?
How Hurt Religious Sentiments Work?

Dec 11, 2020

Simmba Vs. Broadchurch: What Bollywood Missed About Rape

Content Warning: Discussion About Rape Simmba released in Dec, 2018. It made a subtle point about rape. See if you can spot it.

Bollywood

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Simmba Vs. Broadchurch: What Bollywood Missed In Covering Rape
Simmba Vs. Broadchurch: What Bollywood Missed In Covering Rape

Dec 7, 2020

Meet The Person Who’ll Con You The Most: Yourself

Have you noticed a biased person is never the one you agree with wholeheartedly? Also, isn’t it an amazing co-incidence that the person you find genius happens to have same opinions as yours? Same with the person who you think tells the unfiltered truth. It’s just astounding that only the…

Psychology

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Meet The Person Who’ll Con You The Most: Yourself
Meet The Person Who’ll Con You The Most: Yourself

Dec 5, 2020

How Words Shape Your Love And Your Hate

Naseeruddin Shah — Arshad Warsi starrer ‘Ishqiyan’ had a line, “Tumhara ishq, Ishq. Aur hamara ishq, Sex” (Your love is love, our love is lust). This line demonstrates how words can sneak in a prejudice while meaning the same thing. Depending on whether you like it or not, you can…

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How Words Shape Your Love And Your Hate
How Words Shape Your Love And Your Hate

Dec 8, 2019

Encounters Are Law’s Junk Food

Know ‘Encounters’ are law’s junk food, The revenge tastes finger lickin’ good. You say it’s the last day. No more. It is done! Deep down you know — no one can eat just one. The due process starts seeming like a chore, Cravings start singing — yeh dil maange more. Brother, I love you, please excuse my pun, ‘Bas 2-minute’ doesn’t work in the long run. I won’t argue you, intellectuals do that blunder, for lecturing fails against the taste of thunder, Ideas don’t spread coz somebody is shoving it, There’s only one way to stop you from loving it, Win you with compassion, show healings with it, I know discounts and six-packs got you in Cult-Fit.

Priyanka Reddy

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Nov 24, 2019

Mahima, Utsav, and You

How To Maintain Sanity In This Insane Saga — [Full Disclosure: I’ve worked with both Utsav and AIB as a writer for a while.] Twitter is unravelling. It compelled you to take a radical stand against Utsav. Now, against Mahima. You’re disillusioned. How will you take a stand? You don’t want to feel wrong again. What do you do…

Metoo

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Mahima, Utsav, and You
Mahima, Utsav, and You

Oct 25, 2019

Librandus Whining About EVMs Again

How to end their complaint once and for all? — It’s the same story every election. One side claims EVM is rigged, the other side makes fun of them. After a week, everybody resumes their lives. Eat. Sleep. Next election result, same cycle repeat. At some point, the saner side of you must have asked, “There must be a common…

Politics

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Librandus Whining About EVMs Again
Librandus Whining About EVMs Again
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