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Dear Bollywood, Women Also Have Brains!
There is a huge trend set in many Indian movies, where women are portrayed as ‘assets’ to be conquered. In many romcoms, women are portrayed in a really stupid manner. There was a Tamil movie where the...
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विश्वपुस्तक मेला 2017 एक नये आयाम और युवाओं को पुस्तकों तथा टेक्नोलॉजी बुक्स के अलावा ई-पेपर, ई-उपन्यास और ई-वाचन के माध्यम से समाप्त हो गया। यह पुस्तक मेला कई माइनों में कुछ अलग सा दिखा।...
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“परदे में रहने दो परदा न उठाओ, परदा जो उठ गया तो भेद खुल जाएगा” यह गाना मेरी सीमा चाची हमेशा गाया करती थी और गाए भी क्यों न अपनी नज़रो मे वो एक धमाकेदार गायिका थी। दिल्ली की कड़क सर्दी मे काम करते हुए भी...
View ArticleWhy Art And Artists Are More Important Than Patriotism
“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.” – Albert Einstein. It is...
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दुनिया झमेले में, दो दिन के मेले में..
पुस्तक मेला हो तो दिल्ली में हो वरना नहीं हो। प्रगति मैदान मेट्रो स्टेशन से ही मुंह में भोंपू (लाउडस्पीकर) लगाकर सीआईएसएफ का जवान जब दाएं जाएं-बाएं जाएं करता है तो एहसास हो जाता है कि कितनी भीड़ होगी...
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Game of Thrones, Feminism, and the Portrayal of Women
Spoilers Ahead The first time I heard of a series called Game of Thrones was from a guy who couldn’t stop obsessing about how much he enjoyed this show because to him it was a source of some well...
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Remembering A Legend Who Gave 25 Years To Work For The Arts In India
In India, movie watching is still the main form of visual entertainment, however, theatre has picked up over the years, due to the contribution of noteworthy personalities in this space. As compared to...
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साल 1993, 12वीं में था, साइंस सब्जेक्ट चुनी थी। क्यूंकी और मुझे कुछ पता नहीं था। ये एक चुनौती भी थी खासकर उस समय जब 12वी में साइंस का परिणाम लगभग 30% या उसके आसपास ही रहता था। मानसिक दबाव अपनी चरम सीमा...
View ArticleWhy I Want To Thank The Director Of Gautamiputra Satakarni
Dear “Anjanaputra” Krish, We Telugu people simply don’t celebrate great personalities that our land has produced. As a Telugu girl who has grown up in Chennai, a melting pot of cultural activity, I...
View ArticleBollywood Movies That Give Us Misconceptions About Love And Relationships
Like most of the youth of our country, I have grown up watching romantic movies and listening to romantic songs. But as time went by I realised how Bollywood movies were so untrue and unreliable when...
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Shakira In Theatres Of Assam
Finally, the much awaited “Shakira Ahibo Bokultolor Bihuloi”( Shakira Will Come To Bokultol’s Bihu) is here. With a fascinating name, this Assamese film is ready to be screened this Friday (January...
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In Photos: How Campuses In India Remembered Rohith On His Death Anniversary
Last year, Rohith Vemula, a PhD. a student from Hyderabad University committed suicide after series of scuffles with ABVP group, university administration, a BJP minister and HRD ministry. Students...
View Article‘Hinduism From Its Beginning Was A Liberal Movement’: Kannada Author S.L....
Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa is a stalwart of Kannada literature. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2016. He has been an important figure in Kannada literature since the...
View ArticleYKA Exclusive: Chat With Anne Waldman, The Poet Who Fights Against Wars, Men,...
“Outrider rides through the chaos, maintaining a stance of ‘negative capability,’ but also does not give up that projective drive, or its original identity that demands that it intervene on the...
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फ़िल्में अक्सर हमारे ज़ेहन में मौजूद रहती हैं, ये कुछ इस तरह हमारे दिमाग में घर कर जाती हैं कि हम कभी किसी फिल्म के संवाद से अपना विद्रोह ज़ाहिर करते हैं तो कभी व्यंग। मसलन अमिताभ बच्चन की फिल्म...
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Just Like Sania, Why Zaira Doesn’t Need To Apologise To Anyone
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” – George Bernard Shaw This quote could not ring truer along with the ringing in on 2017. Other than Jallikattu, Zaira Wasim, the child...
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The Dishonesty Of Today’s Dating World
It seems like everywhere you turn, there is someone looking down at their phone, refusing to interact with the people around them. It’s important to say that not everybody is like this. But every...
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How These 6 Movies Dealt With The Issue Of Child Sexual Abuse
Child sexual abuse is one of the ugliest hidden realities of India’s dangerously repressed society. Over 53% of children in India have faced some form of sexual abuse, as per a government study,...
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6 Life Lessons You’ll Learn From Gamers
“Get off the computer and go read your book!” That line, or a variation of that line, has been yelled towards us gamers during our childhood by our parents for as long as we can remember. At one point...
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किसी भी स्थान या संस्कृति विशेष के लोगों द्वारा किया जाने वाला कोई आयोजन, खेल, भाषा, भोजन सामग्री का पैटर्न, त्यौहार इत्यादि, उस संस्कृति विशेष में कई सालों से अपने आप ही समाहित हो गया होता है। समय के...
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