Media And Culture
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‘The Office’ to ‘Indian Matchmaking’: How watching cringe-filled entertainment can be therapeutic
This secondhand embarrassment one feels for other people, real or fictional, is physical and emotional.
Anuja Anil Pradhan, The Conversation & Carly Drake, The Conversation
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‘Spare Rib’: The groundbreaking feminist magazine first hit the streets 50 years ago
It closed down in 1993, but its legacy still inspires women.
Laurel Forster, The Conversation
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‘Was painful to watch’: Vyasar Ganesan on how women were talked about on Indian Matchmaking
The 27-year-old speaks to Scroll.in on what it was like to be part of the hit Netflix show.
Scroll Staff
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In Saudi Arabia’s scaled-down plans for megacity across the desert – a warning sign for the future
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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Carbolic Smoke Balls and snake oil: Patanjali joins a long history of dubious medicinal advertising
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Ambitious tourism plans for Lakshadweep ignore limited availability of freshwater
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‘Mountains too are equal to men’: In these poems, the personal has a ripple effect on the world
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and now ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’: Asian-Americans are here to stay
Asian-American representation in the mainstream media is finally improving, and it can only get better.
Christine Lee, The Conversation
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The Pratyusha Banerjee case is dredging up one of the worst showbiz stereotypes
The fact that the ‘Balika Badhu’ star was from a small town had nothing to do with her alleged suicide.
Chandrima Pal