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Journalist and educator | Words in @FiftyTwoDotIn , @vervemagazine , @ArchDigestIndia , @mid_day | Writer profile: (she/her)

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1 year

A few days ago, I looked for Indians who are choosing to spend their lives with friends, breaking away from the tradition of ageing with a spouse. Those who came forward were single or divorced, and lucky to have a network of friends they could rely on:

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2 years

KK's songs with Emraan Hashmi. That's a playlist on its own.

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The Goa Electricity Department's Twitter account > all other brands' Twitter accounts

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"You can't ask for transparency when you never offered it 30+ years ago". Since when did accountability become an item of barter?!

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“Transparency should start from home.” This was Nirmala Sitharaman’s strongly worded defence when opposition members criticised the PM CARES fund.

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4 years

Honestly is it surprising that privileged Indians are more sympathetic to victims of racism in the US than those of casteism in India

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4 years

New work: I interviewed a photographer who has been documenting people on their rooftops since the start of the lockdown. His portrayal of people and terraces is an antithesis of the stories of isolation that we've been hearing of. Link:

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3 years

The real gift of the WFH lifestyle is lying down for 10 minutes in the middle of the work day and allowing your brain to stew in existential exhaustion.

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3 years

First the Karnataka schoolgirl lashing out at seers for denying eggs to children, and now girls in Kundapura protesting for their right to wear hijabs to college. Young people should not be struggling for basic rights, they deserve better.

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4 years

A union minister legitimately thanked a Bollywood actor for helping send migrants home. We have seen it all 🤡

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2 years

I will resolve this debate for older execs, bosses and editors -- once and for all: young people don't want to come back to office because they want to take their depression naps and snack breaks in peace. Also, the commute sucks

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Rest easy, sir. Our only consolation is that we were witness to your talent and it did not go unrecognised. You made sure it didn't.

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3 years

youtube comments.... simply undefeated

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2 years

Peppa Pigs dancing to Kala Chashma is the drug I need directly injected into my veins

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4 years

Some personal news: I got promoted to Chief Sub Editor! Very excited for another year in culture reporting and analysis ✨

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6 years

One really sweet Swiggy delivery person came to the office with toffees, along with the order. It's his birthday, so he's giving customers toffees uff ❤

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3 years

"whirlwind of hate"

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3 years

Hello! I'm looking to talk to people who were/are fans of the song 'BC Sutta' (a 2000s song about smoking) by the band Zeest. This is for a project I'm working on. Please DM/reply if this is you!

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3 years

No one should be working for Rs 1/per word. It is ridiculous and exploitative. And those seeking writers to work at this rate are perpetuating such exploitation.

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1 year

Anyway my favourite local train story is that this one time, I was doing a whole face of makeup while using my phone camera as a substitute mirror. A woman sitting opposite me offered to hold my phone when she saw me struggle. On so many mornings, women in the train have kindly

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4 years

Was invited by my school to talk about journalism at a career awareness thing. I expected it to be a quiet little thing but I had 14- and 15-year-olds asking me about stifled freedoms and persecution of reporters. The Kids Are Alright.

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2 years

losing my mind

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3 years

The Munawar Faruqui story is as much about institutions bending to mobs as it is about society's bigotry. What is the point of telling artists like him to stay strong when they have no recourse against mobs? He was in jail for a joke he didn't tell.

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4 years

How does every new Bollywood star kid/upcoming star kid have the same accent? It's a mix of Lokhandwala/American/unable to speak in Hindi

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2 years

Why has Roe v Wade become a moment of jingoistic pride for us "I'm so glad I live in India" okay dear but do you have any equality

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4 years

The Venn diagram of people obsessed with vacationing in Kashmir and people who won't ever talk about the human rights violations and atrocities committed there is a perfect circle

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3 years

Well-curated social media accounts of companies like Zomato and Swiggy should not be a distraction from their unfair practices and the cruel nature of the gig economy in India. Example:

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5 years

The intersection of protests and meme culture is just beautiful

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2 years

Never recovering from this scene

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2 years

Indian parents' conservatism, and their lack of trust in their adult children to make decisions, is hardly a new thing. The recent moral panic around live-in relationships is just one thing in a long list: Think of stories of how parents treat their queer children. Or parents..

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3 years

You must really respect the hustle if you're too thick to see why this set of interviews was given to a content page and not an actual journalist

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3 years

If I see another tweet about a beautiful Bangalore house on rent I will simply combust

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3 years

Indian uncles proving how unkind and arrogant they can be by tweeting at helpless students in Ukraine. Imagine actually typing "Why did you go there to study?" at someone who is desperate to get to a safe place.

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4 years

Decided to wear a pair of jeans after five whole months. More uncomfortable than a mask. Why did we accept this item of clothing in our lives?

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4 years

An internet shutdown in the national capital on Republic Day

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2 years

Unless you have a ton of 💰 and parental support, it is simply not possible to spend 8 hours at work, 2 in commute, 1 in overtime and still lead a healthy, functional life. When do we work out or cook meals that aren't just heated up in a microwave?

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2 years

Growing up is the sobering realisation that kadi patta does not, in fact, suck

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3 years

Being mean to Indian brides who are not coy etc. seems to have become a whole genre of tweets, no? People are unhappy at the sight of them enjoying themselves. Utterly joyless

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4 years

Good morning to everyone except those who seem to have never read a Civics textbook.

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4 years

Difficult to look at the US right now and not think of Delhi in 2019 and early 2020. Incitement, "allowing" violence to take place, handling rioters with kid gloves, the difference between how the majority vs minorities are treated.

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10 months

I keep coming back to scenes from Mast Mein Rehne Ka where Jackie Shroff is so unmistakably like a certain type of senior gentleman, from the Mahim-Dadar-Parel stretch. Shoulders hunched, life ruled by discipline, an all-too-familiar loneliness. The scene at the beach is 💔

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4 years

Extremely disheartening news about Rahat Indori sahab's death. He gave us these powerful lines: "Sabhi ka khoon hai shamil yahaan ki mitti mein, kisi ke baap ka Hindustan thodi hai"

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4 years

Men do such a delicate dance around the "period leave debate" because they can't say out loud that they feel women don't deserve it.

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2 years

Rich people asking for "work favours" (unpaid labour) is one of my pet peeves. Two weeks ago, a woman with a thick NRI accent called me unannounced (I missed two of her calls because I was in a meeting). When I called her back, she didn't waste any time on pleasantries...

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2 years

I would like to see all these acclaimed masters of grind do carework, housework and raise families instead of just extrapolating LinkedIn gyaan from it

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4 years

How is a joke, that was never cracked, disrupting "mutual" harmony in this country where people belonging to minorities are lynched in full public view?

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11 months

I miss that era in pop culture where we could just be amused by Orry instead of turning him into a case study

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3 months

Had a Santoor mom moment today and thoroughly enjoyed it: a student asked to share a cab to the station, offered to pay half of the fare and laughed when I had to clarify that I am faculty 😭

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3 years

What a lede—this is from the NYT piece on the crackdown on eggs in Gujarat

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5 years

Someday I will write about the myriad ways in which men, who are clearly less attractive than their female partners, manage to body shame them and push them to hate their bodies. Today is not that day, because it is my weekly off.

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3 years

It won't take long before the narrative shifts from 'colleges prevent girls from wearing hijabs' to 'parents are not allowing their daughters to go to school without hijabs'. It shifts both the onus and cause of the issue, turning parents into the villains of this story.

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1 year

I'm never recovering from the HONY guy giving HOB a lesson in looking at yourself in the mirror and shutting up

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1 year

Hello! I'm writing a piece on friends in their 40s and 50s who are choosing to live together/build a life together instead of settling with a partner or living alone. If this is you and you'd be open to an interview, I'd love to speak to you. My DMs are open!

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5 years

Anyone who starts a sentence with 'I don't discriminate on religious lines, but...' is a bigot

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4 years

Petition to stop valourising not taking maternity leaves. That rest is essential and demonises anyone who wants or needs it.

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Must be inspired by @GummallaSrijana ! @IASassociation Soumya Pandey (SDM Modinagar) didnt availed 06 months maternity leave, joined back office with her infant daughter. #CoronaWarriors

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4 years

It's possible to question the bizarreness of it all without being fucking terrible and mean

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5 years

Very tickled by the whole 'I'm a man but drink pink drinks' and 'I'm a woman but enjoy whiskey' discourse. Everyone should drink everything--except Magic Moments vodka.

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2 years

New work: In India's biggest cities, especially in more privileged quarters, the experience of schooling is becoming increasingly competitive and isolating. I saw a complete antithesis of this at the outskirts of Pune, in the village Bopkhel.

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2 years

New work: I wrote about Jer Mahal, one of the finest--and last surviving--examples of chawl systems that were built at the turn of the 20th century in Bombay. This style of architecture emerged as a response to the influx of migrants. 📷: @lookdoyousee

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3 years

Coming back here to show you Fort Kochi's Old Harbour Hotel. 300 years old, one of the oldest in the area.

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Pregnant and bleeding, a Muslim woman at a Jamshedpur hospital was allegedly asked to clean up her blood, accused of spreading the coronavirus, and turned away -- events which culminated in the loss of her child. She says she was abused bc of her religion

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In Jharkhand, pregnant woman says told to clean up blood, loses child

The Jharkhand Police has taken cognizance of the incident and the Jamshedpur SSP has been asked to inquire into the matter.

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1 year

If dietary choices were so innocent and personal, why would they affect housing, midday meals and how people treat each other?

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3 years

The religious bigotry in Delhi isn't just a result of impunity and normalisation, it's actively encouraged and indulged in, at the highest levels.

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5 years

For the last seven years, a revolution has been brewing in Mumbra, where a generation of girls has persevered to play football. Their's is a story of changing attitudes, reclaiming public space and imagining a better life. I wrote about these girls here:

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4 years

Does anyone else feel they've run out of comforting/empathetic things to say to people who are going through a rough time? Everything seems so... meaningless. I don't know how to be there for friends anymore.

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If you're in Alleppey, I cannot recommend Raja Tea Shop enough: it's right at the backwaters and Mr Raja makes a mean beef fry/curry. We ate it with puttu + pazhampori and ullivada.

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4 years

Deeply suspicious of every 'Why men rape' vox pop video which centres men who are non-urban and non-English speaking, as if those who go to college and work in AC offices aren't violent.

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5 years

Someone explain how the CAA can be an internal matter when it involves granting citizenship to people who live outside the country?

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3 years

hello from my unfortunately short sabbatical

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3 years

Some personal news: Today is my last day at Firstpost. The last four-and-a-half years were a time of learning, and I'm grateful to have worked with editors like Jaideep Giridhar and Rohini Nair. And now, some rest before the next gig ❤️

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5 years

Parks, amirite?

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New work: Mumbai's Victorian and Art Deco ensemble is home to buildings that came before us, and will outlive us. The David Sassoon Library stands out in this ensemble for its neo-Gothic beauty: graceful arches, louvred windows, and a verandah with a sweeping view of the city.

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Aah yes can't wait for the endless appreciation for Hasan Minhaj while reporters in India get picked up for doing their jobs

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1 year

Eating sev puri in Andheri is a thrilling experience, purely because of the packaging it comes in: pages from a screenplay, legal notes...

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4 years

. @TwitterIndia must clarify what these legal demands are. The number of withheld accounts is staggering

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4 years

Considering how terrible and unjust the gig economy is in India, covering only the viral video of the customer who complained to Zomato was the issue to begin with. The power imbalance between anyone using the app vs a rider is significant anyway; it's exacerbated when one 1/2

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2 years

Fix your company culture and maybe millennials and Gen-Zs may want to come back. Until then, don't punish young workers -- whose abysmal salary growth is blamed on the economy -- for conserving their time, energy and money. Make the job worth it.

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2 years

Alright covid havers, does the brain fog and exhaustion ever go away????

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5 years

The hate in our country has grown deep roots.

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4 years

I can never get over how 'manly' men's grooming products are. Black facewash coming out of a grey and navy blue dabba, smelling like musky perfume. Meanwhile I come out of the bath smelling like orange juice

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4 years

One painful part of journalism is hearing from others about public holidays.

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5 years

I have caved in. #SareeTwitter

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2 years

Two weeks later --- no message, call, email or follow-up. Don't help rich f*cks for free :)

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4 years

Overenthusiastic law students with too much time on their hands are the new foot soldiers of the State

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4 years

As a culture writer, it is my duty to point out the rubbish that is jim-jam biscuits. That jam isn't even really jam, it's the corpse of what used to be once a fruit.

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4 years

Every morning I put on my glasses before I can scroll through Twitter so I can get furious with clarity

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1 year

Some personal news: After two really fun years of freelancing, I'm excited to join Mid-Day --- specifically its Sunday features team. My DMs are open for leads + tips on Mumbai, culture, art and human interest stories 📝

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3 years

good evening only to pachadi lovers

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3 years

just some home-made butter chicken

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3 years

I'm not saying I'm good at making breakfast but maybe I am

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2 years

Everything is political --- especially something as ordinary-seeming as the chair. My latest writing assignment led to the discovery of an unusual chair with an amusing name: The Bombay Fornicator (!) Known more formally as the Planter's Chair, it's an emblem of colonial rule:

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5 years

I'm convinced that the celebs tweeting now were sent a script to follow: condemn but also make the rights of a bus set on fire your priority. The whole "two sides of the coin" bullshit. None of the 'selfie' brand of celebs is unequivocally supporting students.

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6 years

The only way to avenge the jackfruit is to attack the avocado. Hit white people where it hurts

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2 years

need to start a dabba service

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2 years

I want rich returns on the rent I pay. I want to enjoy my house. If you pay premium rent and don't feel bad about spending most of your day outside, either ur house sux or you're high up in senior management. I have a cute bed & have been writing at the same desk since I was 14

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The triumph of public transport is when it is fully utilised across all strata of society, and accessible to those at the margins. But who will explain this to people who villainise subsidies and think public transport isn't a civic right?

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4 years

There's a stark difference in respect if your partner calls you 'tu'/'tum', and you call them 'aap'. This difference can be flattened if you both call each other 'bavlat' instead.

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I'm constantly amazed by how confidence in one's opinions is passed off as actual knowledge. You say anything with enough authority, and you can get away with surface-level arguments. This is worse when the person has clout

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4 years

A decent second attempt at rogan josh. The house smells of elaichi, sauf and mutton.

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The richest municipality, in a city home to the most number of billionaires in Asia 👍

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Mumbai Hospital Carries Out Delivery Using Phone Torch, Mother And Baby Die

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Don't send your friends and peers memes. Introspect to understand why people your age are bigots. READ. Read The Dreamers by Snigdha Poonam. Read The Ferment by Nikhila Henry. Read Yashica Dutt's memoir. It won't seem unbelievable then.

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