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The tall and short of it
It feels like only two days ago that my dadu was still here, worrying I’d always be too short like her.
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Why we shouldn’t sacrifice our emotions at the altar of intellect
On my first day of a class on postcolonial theory, our professor ended the lecture with a simple exercise that we would reflect back on at the end of our semester.
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Although there is much merit to the representation of women’s pain, the evolution of the heavily aestheticised “sad girl” trope in popular culture has started to make a mawkish caricature of real women’s suffering
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The sarees and the stories we inherit
For the first time, I also found myself giddy over a male protagonist from the world of my father and uncles. The character of Nadeem, Selina's boyfriend, can be best described as a "man written by a woman".
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Shimul
The girl stared back at her and asked a question that made Mrittika’s heart beat faster. “Don’t you recognise me?”
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