By Kashish Sharma On an ordinary Thursday morning, Atheequr Rahman, a 47-year old man sits in his meat shop. The meat shop is right across the busy Russell Market of Shivajinagar in Bengaluru. As one enters the busy lane, lined with meat shops on the right, one can catch sight of Rahman’s cubicle. A U-shaped […]
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From being told to “man up” and accused of “toxic masculinity”, modern men are a confused lot. Utkarsh Pandit, a civil engineer from Chennai was in class 8th when his teacher told him not to throw water at girls after they had done the same to him. “You are a boy and you should not […]
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In the hustle-bustle of Russell Market, a pair of squinting eyes glared at the phone screen and then looked around, shifting from one person to the other and falling back on the screen again. The middle-aged man with a petite body wore a sky blue cotton kurta. A boy who works at his shop did […]
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With the use of internet language, the depth of human emotions have been compromised. Sending a laughing emoticon with a straight face or writing FOMO ( fear of missing out) when one hardly wants to be part of something has become the new way of expression. From words and acronyms to GIFs, internet language provides […]
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From driving a car to filing an RTI, women are still sized up into stereotypical gender bias. One of the men in a party tried to tell Rebecca Solnit, an activist, journalist and writer, about a photography book that she should see, without giving her the chance to tell him that she was the author […]
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With magnificent sets and a dramatic tone, Bhansali brings out the grim reality of prostitution in India. Inspired by S. Hussain Zaidi’s book The Mafia Queens of Mumbai, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi, starring Alia Bhatt, is a polished take on prostitution in India. It is the story of the transformation of Ganga Harjivandas, the […]
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With pyres burning incessantly, bodies flowing like water in crematoriums and people fighting over medical resources, catastrophe knocked India down in the second wave of the pandemic. Watching the pandemic bulletin on television, Veena Saraswat still hears her late, 63-year-old husband’s voice calling out for help. She rushes to his room only to see an […]
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It’s not easy to live in a world when you’re stripped off of your right to wear anything you like, writes Ayndrila Banerjee Nausheen Sultana was 14 years old when she decided to wear a hijab. Now she is 29 and works as a software engineer in Bengaluru. The hijab row that had erupted in […]
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