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Paromita Chakrabarti

Paromita Chakrabarti

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Bhansali’s films have women at the centre of the narrative but are they flag-bearers of feminism?

There’s a scene in the opening episode of Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar that speaks, to my mind, for Bhansali’s heroines: During a conversation...

24.05.2024 40

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Paromita Chakrabarti

My father was a doer, proud of his actions, never scared to fail, but quiet, observant, thoughtful

By Akshay Amritanshu While tributes pour in for my father and we as a family deal with our emotions, it is overwhelming to be reminded of what a...

17.05.2024 20

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Paromita Chakrabarti

Reading Alice Munro is a visceral experience, like a conversation with an old friend

The death of a celebrated writer is an occasion to mourn losses — of her genius, the excellence of her craft, her prodigious intellect, the...

17.05.2024 20

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Paromita Chakrabarti

Rushdie knows, with that strange, intuitive fatwa-defying, free-speech endorsing courage, that this is no way to die. That he would, instead, live in love

In Knife, Salman Rushdie’s remarkable account of finding his way back to life after an assassination attempt in upstate New York in August, 2022,...

04.05.2024 40

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Paromita Chakrabarti

Love can meander and dither, exasperate and anchor

In so far as millennial wisdom goes, this seems to be a difficult time for modern love. The swipe-right-and-meet-your-match kind of love, but also the...

29.02.2024 10

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Paromita Chakrabarti

Narayana Murthy just gave some very bad advice

There’s a meme that never fails to provide wry cheer on bad days at work: A woman trying to keep her head above water, quite literally, while the...

31.10.2023 20

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Paromita Chakrabarti

In a country such as India, a translation carries with it a promise of democracy

In 2021, translator and writer Jennifer L Croft announced on Twitter that she would no longer translate books that do not credit her on the cover...

08.09.2023 10

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Paromita Chakrabarti

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