Yeh dosti Men are however wrapped up in helping each other maintain this illusion it seems

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The awful love of alpha male bonding. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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Fireflies and heart lamps Translation, more visibly than other practices dispels the cult of the solitary genius, as it foregrounds the inherently collaborative nature of art

In a week awash with Cannefluencers, watching #BanuMushtaq and #DeepaBhasthi hug as they won the International Booker for #HeartLamp was beautiful. It was an embrace saturated with so many worlds. (Also, the book is beautiful). This week's #ParonormalActivity
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Love, oddly Dinklage makes haste to leave, falls into the water and whoosh! His creative block is gone, as an entire new opera passes before his eyes

Can you believe in love enough to not manipulate audiences into watching you? I stumbled upon She Came To Me, a lovely little film, not afraid to be lovely, or little, or odd and wrote about it in my column #ParonormalActivity today
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Analog sexy But if stardom tells us anything, it’s that we are beings of infinite desires. And desire is usually a question, not an answer

Helloji Pedro Pascal. Yaniki ek jism mera matlabh hai kism ki #masculinity 😄 Today's #ParonormalActivity

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Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar JK Rowling populates the mindset, typified by Donald Trump, that responds to heterogeneity with a domineering nostalgia for ye olde absolute categories

JK Rowling's big cigar and small heart in today's #ParonormalActivity
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In sickness and health, I do Writing a column is also like being a maasi. You are inside and outside; free of daily attendance, yet responsible and involved

#ParonormalActivity is 15 years old this week. Who knew I was such a committed bird :)
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Poems from prison A passionate and articulate speaker, she grew into a young leader. In any other times this journey would inspire people, fill them with admiration.

On April 9 it will be 5 years for Gulfisha Fatima in jail without bail. On April 9 it will be five years in jail for #Gulfisha Read her poems and think about what it is to be a young person who cares about the world toda. This week's #ParonormalActivity
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For the love of lauki Which young faces will not take on Charlie Chaplin expressions of betrayal and horror, self-pity and terror when confronted with lauki, turai, tinday and bainga

Because age is not a number. It's a sabzi.
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Manliness Adolesence re-inaugurates a discussion on masculinity

#Adolescence and the need to deepen the current conversation on masculinities. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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Solidarity’s siren song Words are magic. So you can do magic tricks with them. ASHA means hope, like in “dil hai chhota sa, chhoti si Asha”

Songs and words, strikes and solidarity and wondering what makes people capable of great personal kindness support systems capable of infinite cruelty. On being at the Kerala Asha Workers protest this #internationalwomensday in today's #ParonormalActivity
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Roza Pop is here Muslim culture is usually represented in some typical ways: either in terms of religious zeal, especially when it is poorer communities

Ramzan humour (I miss Pyari Bakri), Dakkhani delights and Roza pop in today's #ParonormalActivity
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K shaped growth of the soul Finally, on February 6, when the Commisioner did not respond to their written complaint, they decided to walk to Mumbai

A hottest February. A long walk. Some K-shaped growth. Some burning cynicism, some burning hope. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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Scam girls Then you are trapped, a digital scream competing to be heard in a hall of mirrors.

#AppleCiderVinegar is a compelling, well-made show. But it's also part of a growing genre of cautionary tales about women gone astray in the big bad world--of social media. Just that it replaces sex with selling your story. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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Pyaar in the times of PR Such a posh place surely chucks them at the first spot of discolouration. And anyway, is it really stealing if it stays on the premises?

When you get flowers for no reason in an era of emotional ghosting. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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No country for children The day before his suicide he had been made to lick the toilet seat and had his head flushed in the toilet.

Content Warning: Suicide, bullying

The death of a student reflects the terrible mental health crisis among the young. But it equally reflects what privatised education breeds and the alienation which is our emotional AQI. This week's #ParonormalActivity

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Himesh and the yellow auto Add a little fancy English to the description, and it will be in an arts biennale before you can say, bhaiya Malad jaoge?

Exuberance and the city, autos and Himesh Reshammiya. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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Bollywood lives These are the very tales of outsiders and underdogs Bollywood once excelled in telling. In a society as hierarchical as ours, this pain is one many know and so

The Roshans, on Netflix, is sometimes involving, but often frustrating--a corporate film masked as documentary. It's too bad that a popular cinema which captivated people does not have a captivating telling of its history. This week's #ParonormalActivity
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Betrayal Public shaming brings its share of trauma no matter who you are. But, there is no substantive loss of power for Gaiman

When the private relationship with art becomes a public performance of allegiance to the celebrity artist, what does that mean for our political thinking? Today's #ParonormalActivity
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To a year of beautiful questions The latter might describe my friends. I called Friend no. 1 with a cheery “Happy new year”. “Ya, ok” she replied.

Never mind being good to yourself, hope you can find some really good questions to lead your way this year. This week's #ParonormalActivity
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Endings Dr Singh, the architect of Indian liberalisation, leaves behind a complex legacy.

Because beginnings and endings are inextricably entangled, for the first note that builds a new song, we can choose either our despair or our yearning for what feels lost. Last #ParonormalActivity for 2024, on #civility
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Love, law and maths Turns out I was not alone in thinking this. I had unexpected company—the Kolkata police.

Love notes and Christmas spirit from the land of law and order featuring Bombay High Court and Kolkata police in today's #ParonormalActivity
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Chaddi ki charcha Pagal kar diya ki deewana bana diya? No one can say maybe because they are speechless.

The last time we said the word 'chaddi' so often in public was during the Pink Chaddi campaign. The Chaddi Aunty who has inflamed the Indian internet is different - or is she? Today's #ParonormalActivity
#KaunseColourKiChaddiPehneHo
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Cheesy chilly toast in Latur That day arrived in Latur. Scanning the menu, I spied it. Chilli Cheese Toast. Only the world’s bestest snack.

The importance of being Chilly Cheese Toast (yaniki if you don't like CCT then we can't be friends, except maybe on Facebook). Today's #ParonormalActivity
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