‘Judgementall Hai Kya’ Will Make You Question Your Sanity!
SPOILER ALERT TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENCE I went to see Judgementall Hai Kya with my friends last weekend and I hadn’t even seen the trailer of the movie. The movie turned out to be something much...
View ArticleMovies, TV Shows And Porn Have Completely Destroyed Our Ideas Of Love And Sex!
In this age of movies like Kabir Singh, people have a very different idea of what love is and what love should be. I often see people telling each other or writing on social media that “it’s just a...
View Article5 Lessons ‘The Lion King’ Teaches You About The Circle Of Life
The globally popular film The Lion King is captivating audiences all over and has set the box office cash registers ringing handsomely. The latest edition released in 2019 is a remake of the animated...
View ArticleLearn To Unlearn: ‘Ardaas Karaan’ Is A Game Changer For Punjabi Cinema
“Jithe hasde ne sab, uthe vasda hai rab!” (God resides where we rejoice!) Standing on the rough tiny mountain of carpets stacked in the middle of my lower KG classroom, I entertained my entire class by...
View ArticleIt’s 2019. Must TV Serials Still Show Indian Women Only As The Selfless,...
In India, where women work as a selfless women whose only responsibility is to take care of her family selflessly and to serve her husband and children is known as the “idol bahu” or “sanskaari bahu”...
View Articleकैसे लगा प्रेमचंद के नाम के आगे मुंशी?
कलम के जादूगर मुंशी प्रेमचंद हिंदी कथा साहित्य के महान साहित्यकार माने जाते हैं। इतने महान कि अगर आपने हिंदी पट्टी में दसवीं जमात तक प्रेमचंद की कोई पांच कहानियां नहीं पढ़ी, तो स्कूल में हिंदी के टीचर...
View Articleजजमेंटल है क्या: हॉल में कई लोग सोते रहे, कुछ इंटरवल में ही चले गए
राजकुमार राव और कंगना रनौत की फिल्म ‘जजमेंटल है क्या’ देखने का अचानक मुड हो गया। फिल्म के बारे में कुछ भी पता नहीं था, थोड़ा बहुत सुना था कि सस्पेंस, कॉमेडी और थ्रीलर सबकुछ है तो एकदम ख्याली पुलाव पका...
View ArticleWatching Super 30 Inspired Me To Carry Out These Simple Acts Of Goodness
Super 30, the latest Bollywood movie, has inspired many of us to indulge in social good, think selflessly and do random acts of kindness, and it inspired me to write this post, do my bit of social good...
View ArticleMy Language Made Me Realise My History
“Toi class korsa na aji?” (Did you attend your class today?), she asked her friend. “O korsu” (Yes), her friend replied. Two of my other friends looked at each other and laughed. I belong to a very...
View ArticleBiswambar Roy As Don Quixote: An Alternative Take On Satyajit Ray’s Jalsaghar
Satyajit Ray made Jalsaghar (1958) after the critical and financial failure in India of Aparajito (1956), the second film in the Apu Trilogy. Ray believed that a film with songs and dances woven into...
View ArticleRavish Kumar: An Inspiration To Aspiring Journalists
Hailing from a small town of Motihari, Bihar, Ravish Kumar’s journey has been exceptional. He joined NDTV in 1996, where his primary job was to sort out letters that knocked on NDTV’s mailbox. The work...
View Article‘Judgementall Hai Kya’ Is A Must-Watch Movie And Here’s Why
*Spoiler Alert* Most of our lives, we have flung around words like mental, crazy, mad, insane very casually. We weren’t ever stopped by anyone as it didn’t seem offensive then. But you eventually grow...
View ArticleWhy Can’t Bollywood Come Up With Original Ideas Instead Of Blatantly...
Bollywood’s latest film Judgementall Hai Kya got increasingly controversial after a Hungarian artist Flora Borsi found fault with its poster. She criticised its makers for copying her original work and...
View Articleकबीर सिंह: “प्यार की खिलाफत करने वालों पर करारा तमाचा है यह फिल्म”
हिन्दी फिल्म जगत में हैप्पी एंडिंग वाली बहुत कम फिल्में देखने को मिलती हैं। कबीर सिंह उन्हीं फिल्मों में से एक है, जिसका अंत बहुत शानदार दिखाया गया है। फिल्म में दिखाए गए सेक्स के दृष्य को आपत्तिजनक...
View ArticleVoice Of The Streets: The Gully Boy Who Made It Big
Vivian Fernandes, also known as DIVINE, is an Indian rapper and is one of the biggest names in Indian hip-hop today. You cannot leave him out while talking about Indian hip-hop or rap. His voice, with...
View ArticleArticle 370: What Reactions On Social Media Tell Us About Indian Society
As soon as the security was made stringent in the valley, an insidious wind started blowing onto the internet and other social media platforms. This insidious wind also carried the news that Amit Shah,...
View ArticleHow ‘Marvelous’ Is Mrs Maisel!
For those of us who addicted to the world of web series, ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ I think is one of the few among Amazon Prime’s originals which will take you away from Netflix with its fresh...
View ArticleThe Internet Boycott Of Food Delivery Apps Reveals Exactly What’s Wrong With...
People making despotic and bigoted requests to brands, in order to suit their biased mind is very common, and they do so because they think it’s possible to get away with it. It started with Ola cabs...
View ArticleThis National Handloom Day – When You Think Of Pashmina, Think Of Kashmir
My first job landed me in Srinagar, Kashmir, a few days after Shujaat Bukhari’s assassination in 2018. I had to rub my eyes on my window seat as my airplane flew in. The view outside was unbelievable....
View ArticleTo The Strangers Who Like My Pictures On Social Media
Humans frequently try to claim another person as that person entails a lot, which is worth appreciating. They believe something/someone is too precious and should be theirs. Someone/something they can...
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