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Avantika Mehta
Avantika Mehta is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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‘What We Carry’: Maya Shanbhag Lang’s memoir reveals the dark sides of mother-daughter relationships
The memoir shows the pressures a new mother can come under – from her own mother.
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‘The Wall’ can be read as a continuation in fiction of Gautam Bhatia’s work on freedom and equality
A review of the lawyer’s debut novel of speculative fiction.
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Haute action: From Vogue to mall stores, everyone wants a piece of India’s wedding fashion market
The wedding sector is estimated to be valued at $54 billion. No designer can afford to ignore it.
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Trending
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Why the small turnout at Modi’s Kolkata rally should not worry the BJP
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With new OCI notification, India has ended its experiment with dual citizenship
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Air France flight makes emergency landing after Indian passenger’s disruptive behaviour
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How I restored Bapu’s bicycle with the help of local repairmen and ingenuity
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Real-life ‘Terminal’: How people manage to live at airports for months and years
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A silent movement for the legalisation of cannabis is spreading across India
The Great Legalisation Movement has two agendas: quietly provide cannabis oil to cancer patients, and press the government to lift the ban on using marijuana.
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A temple in Himachal Pradesh stands as a beacon of hope for religious tolerance
Surrounded by mountains and a river flowing below, the Trilokinath temple brings together people from two faiths – Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Your masterji copying a Sabyasachi lehenga is only the tip of India’s fashion plagiarism problem
An Instagram account is forcing the Indian fashion industry and its consumers to address issues that were swept under the carpet for decades.
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Video
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Eco India, Episode 100: Understanding women and their relationship with the environment
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Watch: Migrant runs into strange people and situations in short film ‘Welcome to Mumbai’
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‘International Men’s Day should also be celebrated’: BJP MP Sonal Mansingh in Rajya Sabha
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Watch: Farmers’ protests are celebrating women’s day with massive rallies and women speakers
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Watch: Pope Francis visits Qaraqosh, a Christian-majority city in Iraq
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Supreme Court stays HC bail order granted to former OP Jindal university students in rape case
A woman had alleged that her fellow students had blackmailed her into having sex with them.
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Social media addiction has its perils, but Instagram is where young Indians come to bare their soul
When strangers online become your community, where else do you go to discuss sexuality, art and politics?
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Suicide attempts are no longer punishable by law. Here’s why that’s a good thing
Decriminalising suicide is one step closer to addressing India’s huge mental health crisis.
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The Reel
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‘Saina’ trailer: Watch Parineeti Chopra as badminton champion Saina Nehwal
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‘Bombay Begums’ review: Spirited performances in show about the different shades of womanhood
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‘Thunder Force’ trailer: Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer play unlikely superheroes
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Jean-Luc Godard: ‘Today’s cinema only thinks action and not silence’
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Sahir Ludhianvi at 100: Why the poet and film lyricist was the original ‘Angry Young Man’
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‘No one eats non-veg openly here’: Ahmedabad’s food lovers on the city’s cultural aversion to meat
New Irani Café’s famous maska-bun used to come with a layer of egg, until customers began asking for ‘Hindu-buns’.
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When the Gujarati word for fun described rioting, looting and murder
In Ahmedabad, a museum dedicated to conflict reminds us of Gujarat’s trysts with violence.
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‘They wish every day to be dead’: The struggles of children in Gujarat’s riot rehabilitation camps
The children of the riots continue to suffer psychological and physical scars, which no one in the administration has attempted to understand, let alone heal.
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The Field
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Watch: Rishabh Pant is a left-handed Virender Sehwag, says former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq
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Golf: Anirban Lahiri to play at The Players Championship after Brooks Koepka pulls out due to injury
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India vs England: Test series defeat is going to hurt for a while, says coach Chris Silverwood
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NBA: Giannis wins MVP as Team LeBron dominates 2021 All-Star Game against Team Durant
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Cricket: ICC tournaments for women to have more teams from 2026