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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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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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Australian journalist leaves country amid visa troubles, says ‘too difficult to do my job in India’
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Ramachandra Guha: Why 2024 is India’s most important election since 1977
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Dubai: How a high-altitude jet stream, not cloud seeding, created a storm ‘the size of France’
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Rights group PUCL seeks disqualification of PM Narendra Modi for hate speech in Rajasthan
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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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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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Eco India: How can India deal with its mounting tyre waste?
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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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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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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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Archery, World Cup Stage I: Jyothi Surekha Vennam finishes second in women’s compound qualification
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Table Tennis: Sreeja Akula overtakes Manika Batra as India’s highest ranked women’s singles paddler
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IPL 2024: Sandeep Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal lead Rajasthan Royals to dominant win over Mumbai Indians
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Squash: Saurav Ghosal announces retirement from professional circuit
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Chess: Gukesh Dommaraju – inexperienced, expected to fail, but the chosen Candidate