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27/10/2024

Bollywood Wives's firm commitment to trashiness is what makes it occasionally fabulous = and in Season 3 it is undoubtedly Shalini Passi who is its spirit animal. Today's

Such people will at once be considered too good for the group, and also “who does she think she is” by the group. Yaniki, Shalini Passi.

20/10/2024

Exhausted all the time? Maybe it's not self-care you need. Maybe it's a little more Side Character Energy! Divinations from Ram Lilas on today's

Did they whoop like Fearless Nadia or toss off an insouciant Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron as the made the jailbreak? That’s left to our giggling imagination.

16/10/2024

The latest lobbying to ban over-the-counter sales of the emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) - more commonly known as I-pill or morning after pill - is the latest chapter in the soap opera titled Who's Afraid of Sexual Autonomy. This week's

Tamil Nadu’s moral ban followed protests from anti-abortion groups like Responsible Parents Forum and Satvika Samuga Sevakar Sangam, which claimed ECPs induce a

06/10/2024

Recently, a young colleague asked me, “What did people do when they were bored before the internet?”. Well....:D. On the changing nature of boredom, catching up and the unfulfilled yearning for involvement. Today's

“That can’t be right” he exclaimed. Some retracing revealed that we had in fact met in 2021. It just did not feel that way.

05/09/2024

Working with pleasurable forms and the idea of pleasure itself within the solemn world of social and political issues has never been an easy journey for me--though I'm not a fan of the politics of lament and all that--so it is a landmark of sorts to have co-written this editorial on the politics of pleasure along with Anne Philipott of The Pleasure Project for a special issue on pleasure for the journal SRHM. The launch this evening has some really interesting panelists. Other forms of busy-ness prevented me from posting this earlier but it's online so maybe those interested will be able to join. I will share the editorial soon too! Here is the registration link: https://events.humanitix.com/pleasure-matters

01/09/2024

Even as I read piece upon piece about the Hema Committee report, my social media feed pulses with fanboy excess of self-proclaimed counter cultural dudes fawning over male artists and of course news of manels and manel-like things. Less genuflecting, more reflecting is needed. My column today

What prevents someone claiming to be a political thinker a chance to deepen their political understanding?

27/08/2024

I wrote this piece in 2018 on the heels of a wave. We find ourselves back in the same cycle of conversations though so am re-sharing and hope you will read and share.

For men, smart women are, at best, trophy listeners, a high-level audience to endorse their interesting image. With hot girls, they just pretend harder.

25/08/2024

celebrates Salim-Javed's confidence and originality of spirit. But alas the series does not meet it with an autonomous creativity and insight which the subject deserved. My column today

What were the times that Salim-Javed were part of, which made them as much as they made it?

18/08/2024

All rapes are not equal in an unequal society. Justice is elusive when society is unjust. Today's

Calls for hanging discourage examination of the conditions of injustice in which s*xual violence is embedded.

11/08/2024

Being heroic in small-minded times. Today's

Phogat her silver and Imane Sharif the pure celebration of her victories.

04/08/2024

Who can blame the rain for breaking up with us? Today's

The ruling party was quick to call this a Communist-government made disaster, as if it is not a disaster that we all live within

28/07/2024

Shazia Manzoor! I first encountered her on Channel V but never in her full glory. Now, in Coke Studio Pakistan's Turi Jandi video she reminds you that s*xy is about andaaz and boy does she have it! Today's

So much maza, khulle haath, khulla dil is indeed the definition of a true blockbuster, made with heart, not only marketing

25/07/2024

I enjoyed talking to Kinjal Dave about making documentaries and Agents of Ishq, writing a weekly column and justifying my lack of work-life balance, for this Global Media & Communication podcast series, at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at UPenn last October.

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21/07/2024

Not to rain on anyone's moral opprobrium parade but perhaps we have all been attending this wedding long before it actually began. That's why what might be most notable about it is not its opulence but it's duration. Today's on The Wedding and a post-liberalisation history of media.

Krishna opened his mouth to reveal the entire universe. The wedding is an inside out version of this that subsumes the entire mediaverse into its being

14/07/2024

So I read a book, but I'm not going to tell you the name because.
Solitude that feels like plenitude in today's

Unable to work, I lay in bed, wrapped in a quilt, wrapped in the cocoon of monsoon light, wrapped up in the book.

03/07/2024

It's 's death anniversary. Sharing a piece I wrote on her when she died.

And eventually, it created a million TikTok videos, a cascade of hook steps by people from every possible background Illustration/Uday Mohite It is a filmi coincidence, that the Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan died in the same week that the government saw it fit to ban TikTok.Growing up, to admit...

30/06/2024

's wedding was unique for its air of autonomy in many respects, not just the choice of who she married. (Tabu's rose-gold gharara and Kajol's guffawas are also featured). Today's

The sheer presence of unconventional, or let’s just say it, diva types, including Tabu in rose gold gharara, felt like a feminist Farah Khan song

26/06/2024

Rahul Gandhi's changing persona and the work of eros in creating new frames, political, personal and aesthetic. I wrote this essay for the new issue of Frontline building on my earlier essay in December about Gandhi and the shifting politics of masculinity/masculinity of politics. (It's my sense that the terms DILF and thirst trap may not have appeared in this venerable magazine before :D )

REINVENTING RAHUL / RAHUL...NAAM TOH SUNA HOGA Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps June 25, 2024   This essay for Frontline, June 24 issue, builds on my earlier essay for them, A Different Masculinity/The Loser's Challenge exploring the interweave of political culture, aesthetics ...

24/06/2024

"I can rage: with birds and monkeys falling dead from trees, fish floating up in the millions, forests burning and corals bleaching because of overheated summers—how does it make sense to willfully destroy rainforest and reefs and mangroves and beaches with their myriad irreplaceable creatures? Or the rare cultures in which people know how to live in this world with love for other beings rather than contempt?

In truth, perhaps I care about this island, which I have never seen and probably will never see, because it reminds me that living on this Earth, so battered and yet still so beautiful, so full of mystery and magic, is a privilege. That we need to hold onto this magic, because without it life will be just a little bit less worth living."

Madhushree Mukherjee on the proposed development on Car Nicobar makes you rage and weep.

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

23/06/2024

What's going on with wedding clothes: from Radhika Merchant to Bridgerton and the line from Mann ke Manjeere to the Nooran Sisters new music video in today's

If it were not for the dresses, would women be tempted into matrimony one wonders

16/06/2024

Shooting a docu after a gap of 13 years felt a bit like eating parottas and mutton in Madurai. Today's

In Madurai, temples are everywhere, their varied surfaces teeming with mythical creatures and uncompromising gods

15/06/2024

Enjoyed doing this Interview with Aarati Ray for the Kathmandu Post and impressed with how she distilled a very long conversation about everything from Unlimited Girls to Agents of Ishq to romance novels and Animal into this.

Writer and filmmaker Paromita Vohra discusses themes of desire in her works, while also examining the evolving dynamics of feminism and Pink Tourism in Nepal.

09/06/2024

Kangana and Kulwinder Kaur's slap, Rahul Gandhi and questions media asks - a sawal of questions. Today's

A Kangana Ranaut clip encouraging Pahadi women to give every champu a pahadi thappad circulated soon after

02/06/2024

Numbers, temperatures, ecosystems of power, changing climates - today's

Too many words and ideas? Zoning out? Arright! Back to numbers.

19/05/2024

Bhavesh Bhinde, Ego Media, Modi's road-show in Ghatkopar and Rashmika Mandana talking about vikas and development as she drove over the coastal road in today's

The gigantic billboard had been constructed by a man called Bhavesh Bhinde, a name out of some film by koi ‘‘edgy” gents filmmaker