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Kate Winslet in 'Mare of Easttown' and the power of the real
No fat cells were harmed during the filming of 'Mare of Easttown'
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Hallelujah, heroines are visible again!
Reel people have to closely resemble real people, who come in all shapes and sizes.
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Of couples and condoms
The National Family Health Survey can sense a ticking bomb in the reproductive and sexual health of the nation, and is making appropriately worried noises.
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Drama in real life is always on mute
IRL sees a lot of silent observations, some muttering and ‘okay, what’s for lunch?’
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KK Shailaja: Exit stage left
K.K. Shailaja was our heroine – fighting a deadly virus, and winning by all accounts. Her ill-timed ouster has come as a blow.
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Bill and Melinda Gates divorce: What we know so far
No good friend or reliable sources have spilled secrets about extramarital affairs or boredom in the bedroom. Yet, saying that the super-rich couple split up to save taxes is mundane and boring.
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Don't call older women cougars
Infatuation doesn't take into account how many birthdays the other person has celebrated, nor does the 'appropriate age gap' guarantee marital longevity.
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The death of pleasantries
Once words were a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, now they are clunky self-conscious utterances.
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A 'happily ever after' divorce
How to have a happy marriage may be from the fairytale genre, but how to have a happy divorce is a survival manual.
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Keep it down, girls
In most parts of India, misogyny comes to a lather in the labour room. A general disrespect during delivery is common, and empathy is thought to weaken the brisk, practical mood of the ward.
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Deranged, unhinged, non compos mentis
To enter a madman’s world and see it his way is perhaps the greatest talent of the caregiver.
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Are you there God? It's me
The pandemic has wreaked havoc on some of our plans – even plans around when and how we want to leave this world
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How do I kill thee? Let me count the ways...
It is too complicated an area to go into, why domestic abuse victims stay on despite the bruises and blows, clinging desperately to stray sweet nothings and routinely spelt promises.
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No sex, please… when moral police target a Netflix show
Call them critics or chronically conscientious, vigilantes are ever aware of their duty to mankind. And the latest to come under their scanner is the Netflix show Bombay Begums.
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Meghan Markle’s sob story: Courageous or crafty?
Whether people think her story made up or authentic, there is no denying that the interview has made Meghan a star; everyone is talking about her.
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Gaslight or be gaslit
The world can largely be divided – based on muscle, money and occasionally matrimony – into bullies and victims.
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Why men love bitches and other relationship quirks
Needy, clingy women, who drape themselves like a vine around men, catering to their every need and whim go unappreciated.
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Love, sex aur dhoka: Three books on man-woman equation in the heterosexual universe
Gayathri Prabhu’s Love in Seven Easy Steps, Rucha Chitrodia’s It’s Also About Mynah and Madhavi S Mahadevan’s Bride of the Forest look at love and its many aftermaths.
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You can’t hurry love
In the by-lanes of virtual dating apps, haste is a brag. One day we may have to relearn how to let our feelings breathe. To take it slow.
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Color me blind — waxing eloquent about tints
In India, where we have our own ‘wheatish’ version, the use of the word ‘colour’ itself denotes only one particular complexion. ‘She has no colour’ and ‘she has good colour’ only speak of that single shade, white aka ‘fair’.
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Melania: Madonna or Lady Macbeth?
Melania has kept the world guessing about her true feelings for her husband. A world that scrutinises everything about her, including the wordings on her jacket. So is she a victim or vamp?
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Self-care, the new sunrise industry
There is only one self-care package and that is us ourselves. We bleed, we put the band-aid on. We are the ones who set things right in our own life – this is the newest mantra, the latest spiritual understanding.
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Grief, reincarnation and reconnections — Surviving Death explores myriad venues, ends up handing out hope
The Netflix documentary series, which looks at life after death in normal and paranormal ways, is a new style of series altogether and hard to be labeled.
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The changed rules on mingling: Two is a party, three a crowd
We remember to socially distance from time to time, making us dancers in a new dance where we dart forward and then lean back at a whim. To hug or not to hug is the new question.
