Filmy music often ‘borrows’ heavily from Urdu and Hindi classics, and folk music.
...Full StoryA gauntlet has been thrown in front of Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh.
...Full StoryHe represents both an ideal and a dilemma for scribes of the day.
...Full StoryBy refusing to take up the concerns of its own community seriously, it has ceded both moral and legal ground.
...Full StoryA person who does not get to choose her/his sexual mate is a slave.
...Full StoryAll these stories are told and retold, and enacted and reviewed every day, everywhere.
...Full StoryInspired by Rudyard Kipling's 'If'.
...Full StoryI am judging you as I judge all politicians - through statements and silences, through action and inaction.
...Full StoryThe real battle is to correct labour and wage imbalances. Fight for inheritance and your right to work.
...Full StoryIf you want casual sex, do not approach women on your team.
...Full StoryIt would take five minutes and would reassure a billion people.
...Full StoryIf 'our culture' cannot cope with our body then the culture needs to take a good, hard look at itself.
...Full Story[Satire] If there is no case, no evidence, the person will ultimately go home.
...Full StoryTo improve air quality, focus on reducing cars but do stand up for non-polluting citizens also.
...Full StoryThere is violent crime everywhere in the country.
...Full StoryYou'll blend into the landscape as easily as if you lived there.
...Full StoryIt was told mainly by women who survived the massacre of one branch of Prophet Muhammad's family.
...Full StoryIt is one's way of saying: Think! Think of injustices in the past and present.
...Full StoryWhen I thought of women, I thought of them as helpers of the cause rather than being their own cause.
...Full StoryPeople like to draw comparisons, I believe we are products of conditioning.
...Full StoryTo insist on spousal rights, regardless of spousal desire, is a short-sighted and self-defeating enterprise.
...Full StoryI really hope the campaign of Jamia Millia Islamia and Delhi University students displaying feminist messages on sanitary napkins spreads.
...Full StoryAs long as you can believe in India and the Constitution, there is reason to celebrate.
...Full StoryI was struggling to just 'be' in a public space rather than 'occupy' it.
...Full StoryFestivals are intended to mark the goodness, the richness, and the sweetness of life. If the annual treat becomes an every-other-day habit, then how are we celebrating?
...Full StoryDear Santa, Modi government really likes you, and so do we.
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