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  • Seeing Double: 9 Bollywood Movies With Twins That I Still Love

    Nine Bollywood movies with twins, from Ram Aur Shyam to Kaminey — double role classics, mistaken identities, and why Hindi cinema cannot let this trope go.

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  • A man wakes up one morning as a woman, keeping only his memories, and tells his life story to a barber — in verse. My Risk-Reader take on Full Full Girl by Abhimanyu Jamwal.

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  • Book Review: The Music Makers

    Three estranged siblings are pulled back into the same house when one of their sons goes missing. Rohini Paranjpe Sathe’s The Music Makers is a tender, unflinching novel about patriarchy, buried dreams and the music that survives a family’s silence.

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  • Lifeline in Pages

    Amayra lives in a monochromatic world. Her world is dark and dreary. Her depression isn’t a sadness so much as an absence, an absence of color, taste, and future. She hasn’t left her apartment in weeks, and the dust is settling on her life, just like it has settled on all her belongings. The statues…

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  • Jahnvi was sitting at her study table, notebook open in front of her and a pen poised on the paper. Her eyes were fixed on something outside her window and she seemed to be deep in thought. Jahnvi had been selected to give a speech on The Importance of Social Equity at her school on…

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  • 24th of January is celebrated as The National Girl Child Day in India. The aim is to generate awareness about empowering a girl child and create an environment where a girl can thrive and achieve her dreams. In a country where equal opportunity is still denied to many girls, there is a need to ensure…

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