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Hollywood Portrays India Terribly. This Is What They Should Be Doing Instead.

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“Poverty, filth, traffic!”, “Gandhi, poverty, over-populated”, “Poverty, slums, filthy” and repeat… Aforementioned are the responses of different Americans on asking them what are the first 3 things that come to their mind when they think about India (Source: A YouTube video). There was a second question asked to them that why do those 3 things pop up in their mind about … [Read more...]

You Need To Be Run Over By Salman To Get Talked About, Because Dying In The Heat Doesn’t Count

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Poverty is like a punishment for a crime you didn’t commit - Eli Khamarov If you follow the news in India, you probably would know that around 2200 people have died due to a heat wave in the country. If you didn’t know, I would not blame you. Placed at the bottom of every national news website, at a corner somewhere, this piece of information apparently is not important for … [Read more...]

I Was Happy That I Lost Weight, But I Feel Ashamed Of The Way I Felt To An Uncle’s Remark

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Last year, I was down with jaundice and measles. I was bedridden for a month, and naturally, I shed a few kilos. One day after I was well enough to get out of the house, my parents and I went for grocery shopping. My father met one of his colleagues and he had never been more delighted to see me. He approved of how thin I’d become. He told me that I finally looked like a … [Read more...]

Why Is Our Society Still So Intolerant Towards Transgenders And People With Different Sexual Desires?

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How many times have we reacted in a proper way to things different from our conveniences? How many times have we shrieked at the sight of people slightly different from us? The answer surely can’t be counted even in that superfast brain that some of us have. It is the nature of human beings as the great comic book writer, Stan Lee, puts it in his comics,  is to react … [Read more...]