Behind the playful mask of the supposedly innocent revelry is the ugly face of collective imposition and non-consensual sexual overtures.
I believe in this celebration because it contains key marketing lessons.
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PARIS DIARY | 5-minute read
It's the kind of festival that brings a free-for-all anything-goes mad freedom.
While we are busy destroying our festival and heritage, Westerners are trying to make them better.
Chanting 'Bura Na Mano, Holi Hai', a certain section of men did as they pleased because the festival 'sanctioned' it.
What could have been a day for women to subvert social hierarchies has become a festival of fear.
A new PIL by one of Thane’s most respected doctors takes the nuisance factor of festivals off the roads. But do we want that?
Holi is a very different festival for men and for women.
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Why bother with Sanskrit? | 6-minute read
It mediates otherwise contentious boundaries of social difference.
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