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Bilingually Yours: The Hindi Lessons By Kipling And Rushdie
By Preksha Sharma: In the past few months, my literary diet has altered itself to include a good nourishment of children’s books. I started with the old classics (available for free on the internet),...
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Breathtaking Television: Why Game Of Thrones Leaves The Rest Behind
By Jason Jacobs, The University of Queensland: When Game of Thrones returns to screens for its fifth season on Sunday night, US time, it will no doubt continue to attract the critical and popular...
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Now That You’ve Seen Episode 1 Of Game Of Thrones (Maybe 2, 3 & 4 Too,...
By Karthik Shankar: Readers of the ‘Song of Ice and Fire’ series have been biting their nails in anticipation; because this is the season that Game of Thrones will finally go off page. After serving...
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Shobhaa De Vs. Shiv Sena Twitter Battle, And The Real Talk On Marathi Cinema
By Sourabh Harihar: The recent hullabaloo around Shobhaa De’s comments about the mandatory screening of Marathi films at prime-time in multiplexes across Maharashtra has drawn a barrage of reactions...
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I Might Be Too ‘Lousy’ To Join The Military, But On This Journey I Met The...
By Naina Kataria: "Traveling- it leaves you speechless, and then turns you into a storyteller". –Ibn Battuta. From the start, I’ve always loved to travel. This is probably because by the time I was...
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Theirs Is Music For That Rainy Day, With A Cup Of Chai Of Course
By Komal Singh: For the longest time when someone asked me, ‘What kind of music do you like?’ I didn’t know what to say. Saying rock, pop or fusion didn’t feel right. I knew songs that felt right....
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‘I Was Broke And Depressed’ – Chaitanya Tamhane On His Journey With Award...
By Akhil Kumar for Youth Ki Awaaz: After rocking the global film festival circuit with 18 prestigious awards, and also bagging the national award for best feature, 28 year old Chaitanya Tamhane's...
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Of Saggy Vagina Tales And Sexist Jokes: Meet The ‘Unladylike’, Radhika Vaz
By Moumita Ghosh for Youth Ki Awaaz: [su_row][su_column size="1/2"] “I buy this maturity levels balancing out bullshit up to a point, but when you are fifty-two and your blushing bride is six months...
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Aishwarya Rai Is Making News For This Ad, But For All The Wrong Reasons!
By Sanjana Sanghi: A full page advertisement for Kalyan Jewellers in The Hindu on April 17, 2015 featuring Aishwarya Rai Bacchan has created a furore among child rights activists, feminist activists...
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Film Review: ‘Court’ Opens A Two-Hour Window Of Unadulterated Realism
By Kasturi: Chaitanya Tamhane’s first feature-length film ‘Court’ is not just an indictment of the functionings of the Indian judiciary. It opens a two-hour window of unadulterated realism into the...
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What The Spice Girls Taught Me About Gender
By Pooja Pande: When Posh Spice finally broke her maun vrat by some actual singing, she made an impact on me. I remember the moment like it was yesterday (and since a part of me is firmly convinced...
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The 5 Most Anticipated Movies That You Need To Start Saving Up For Now!
By Karthik Shankar: The last week has seen a slew of trailers released for promising films. And it surely seems like movie buffs are in for a treat! Star Wars: The Force Awakens Once upon a time in a...
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In This Country Where Cricket Is A Religion, There Can Be Only One ‘God’-...
By Karthik Shankar: It was Sharjah in 1999, just as the summer heat was starting. I was still in my early stages of working out the intricacies of cricket but there was one word that I responded to as...
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Y Watch: ‘Margarita With A Straw’, Giving The Finger To A Hypocritical World
By Smitha Ruth: There is a beautiful scene in 'Margarita With A Straw'. After frenzied nights of writing lyrics, mid night chats with the budding crush who is the main singer and the final...
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Y Watch: Mani Ratnam’s ‘OK Kanmani’ Breaks Tamil Cinema’s Misogynist Stereotypes
By Karthik Shankar: Mainstream Tamil cinema is notorious for under-serving heroines, even compared to Bollywood’s poor standards. Despite a recent indie revolution with unique ideas and directors...
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Flashback: The Horrors Of The Gujarat Riots Brought To Life In ‘Parzania’
By Nada Faruqi: Far, far away from this world stained in blood and splintered by riot - is an ethereal cosmo where rivers are made of kheer, rooftops are made of halwa and mountains made of ice-cream....
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“For All Intents And Purposes, I Am A Woman”: Bruce Jenner, And The LGBTQI...
By Shambhavi Saxena: "For all intents and purposes, I am a woman," said former Olympian Bruce Jenner, in a high profile interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer. And really, that's all that should matter,...
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“Cyanide & Happiness Is Dark Humor And Absurd Nonsense”: Comic Strip Creator,...
By Meghna Gulati: We got in touch with the creator of Cyanide & Happiness, Kris Wilson, and he was very kind to have agreed to an interview! For those of you who haven't yet had the honor of being...
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#GoHomeIndianMedia – Indian Media Slammed For ‘Insensitive’ Coverage Of Nepal...
By Sanskriti Pandey: Irony looms large upon us Indians today. This World Press Freedom Day, Nepal has reacted to Indian media’s insensitive coverage of the devastating earthquake that hit the region...
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Hiding Our Shame: Is There Room For ‘National Pride’ In A Debate On Gender...
By Mehernaz Patel: Generalisation is a plague that affects our global community, mainly because of the fast paced nature of news – relevant today, not tomorrow, has created a culture where we remember...
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