Paromita Vohra
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#ShahRukhKhan
is ambition, desire, humour, ease, darshan - and most of all Love. My essay in
@IndianExpress
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Just because you've suffered doesn't mean everything you say and do is right
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I wrote an essaay on the mehman nawazi of
#ShahrukhKhan
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@iamsrk
- because I love him, because I think he helps us love ourselves, as Indians and as people, because he reminds me of an apnapan whose loss I keenly feel.
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Those accents, that idea of politics as a syllabus, the quest for invulnerability -
#MadeInHeavenS2
promised decadence, gave
#BoreMatKarYaar
bhashan-what's the deal with this kind of content?
Today's
#ParonormalActivity
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My name has been mispronounced many ways but surely my current Uber 's driver wins with' Parmatma' 🖖
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I wish brilliant women received the adoration and admiration that averagely talented men receive
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What is love?
@surekha
knew - what it is, what it's worth. First time we met she said "I love you dude", alarming me. I love you too dude, but you knew that. Today's
#ParonormalActivity
, in loving memory of a woman who was rightly famous for being herself.
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#VidyaSinha
did play a certain type of 1970s middle-class working woman, but what I loved about her was how often she was seen on screen absorbed in her own thoughts. On Rajnigandha in my column
#ParonormalActivity
today
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The casual way in which Salman Khan tries to humiliate the woman journalist is proof of the horrible, sexist, masculinist culture of Bollywood
#TanushreeDutta
#BollywoodSexism
Ye Hai salman when asked abt Tanu he crack jokes and such spineless response.
#TanushreeDutta
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Just because you thought of it during Lockdown doesn't mean it's deep.
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2500+ individuals and over 60 people have signed this letter - you might want to as well.
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Accidentally sent message to yoga teacher "sir I can't make out tomorrow" instead of "I can't work out tomorrow". Goodbye, leaving for vanvaas.
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I wrote Khamosh Pani long ago, sitting young and serious in my tiny place with its big window :). There's a piece about it in today's Indian Express for the 72nd anniversary of Partition.
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Why do I feel ‘pleasure positive’ is a more exciting idea than ‘sex positive’? A thread.
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"My tongue has sharpened.
My patience for those that judge
Runs a little thin,
Along with my uterine lining.
All else droops slightly"
Hema Gopinath Sah on growing older, menopause and the ठहराव of life's autumn
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Arre sister, everyone pays tax who ever buys anything. Income tax is not the only tax. Let your articulation be illuminated by awareness not dimmed by opportunism.
Kangana Ranaut on
#CitizenshipAct
: When you protest, the first thing that's imp is that you don't turn violent. In our population, only 3-4% ppl pay tax, others are actually dependent on them. So, who gives you the right to burn buses, trains & to create ruckus in the country?
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Navika is looking like she studied for Social Studies paper but exam was Maths ka (speaking from experience)
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And we'll never know why those who once agreed so well, cannot find a way to disagree well
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#MastMeinRehneKa
may seem like a small film. But its refusal of loneliness, its tenderness for people and for
#Bombay
, its humorous empathy, its understated gloss on
#masculinity
hold big ideas. AND Jackie Shroff+Rakhi Sawant! Today's
#ParonormalActivity
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I wrote about (some of) the anxieties about gender, sexuality and change that lie beneath the offence at
#ranveersingh
's photos for the Times of India.
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Two women who are my co-passengers in this Uber have been discussing where to eat lunch for the last 3 km. Every place we pass they say "यहां भी आ सकते हैं". I think I should befriend them.
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My first film Annapurna, about a women's food co-op is part of the Rising Gardens festival. The textile mill area its set in is gone, but its questions remain-what is the value of women's work, what is women's value at work? It's live here till the 15th.
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Whether you quit when you're ahead like Zaira Wasim or when you're behind, like Rahul Gandhi, quitting makes folks uneasy because it suggests aur bhi sukh hain zamane mein than an ongoing race. Today's
#ParonormalActivity
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Some days it feel that only the language of war is audible to people. That to be 'against' something is the only thing they recognise and value, whereas to be speak for and work for a set of ideas is always considered a lesser thing
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"What we admire is so overwhelmingly male, so much of the time. And as a result, what we are willing to set aside, what we deem inconvenient, the worse-makers of more important male matters, is overwhelmingly female. "
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I wrote an (long) essay about how
#boislockerroom
reveals that we need to move beyond adversarial and platitudinal political responses, unpack the mesh of privilege & imagine an education - including
#sexeducation
- about what it means to be a person.
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I wrote this when
#ShashiKapoor
died last year. That gentle inclusivity, that expansive, kind masculinity is stil missing in our public conversation and so needed
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Lovers often enter a party in disguise.
#Pathaan
comes disguised as an action film but is there any confusion that it is a love story, between
@iamsrk
and his public? Today's
#ParonormalActivity
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RIP
#MahendraWatsa
and big salaams to a life lived with unhesitating goodness, intelligence and wit.
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"Kaala" refuses to be a tragedy, reverses the gaze on caste, social order, urban life and and creates a political film form the embodies an assertive, joyful, liberatory politics. My
@sundaymidday
column
#ParonormalActivity
today
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It's my grandmother Ashalata's birthday. We have hardly any pictures of her and in truth, pretty patchy knowledge of her life . But film history fans are so amazing, the way they find these traces and send them along. This apparently from an old Sri Lankan magazine. HBD nani 😊
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Yay! Thrilled! Agents of Ishq's won Laadli award for best campaign- 7 videos & a series of graphics which looked at how women from the 19th century to the present engaged with age, agency, marriage and law. Everymember of the team-and then some-worked on it so it's extra special.
Arre Agents! We’re so so happy to announce that our
#GrownUpGirls
series has won an award at the 10th Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2018-2019!
@Laadli_PF
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I wrote a piece for this Sunday's ET special on
#MeToo
about why the world needs to stop swallowing the creative, professional and sexual mediocrity of men when they could be spitting
#BoreMatKarYaar
and really loving and seeing women
#feminism
#love
#sex
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#SaleemKidwai
- gentle, generous, affectionate, humorous and capacious. Heartbroken at his passing.
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Why do Indians suggest pointless home remedies in the face of dire illness, instead of trusting expertise? Is that what makes the government 'relatable' for some? Today's
#ParonormalActivity
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I miss admiring other people's saris and shirts and dresses and ribbons and spectacle frames and lipstick and ...well, I miss other people's clothes. Don't you? Today's
#ParonormalActivity
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I hereby, is it?
Beghairat
As a philanthropic gesture on behalf of
@SerumInstIndia
, I hereby reduce the price to the states from Rs.400 to Rs.300 per dose, effective immediately; this will save thousands of crores of state funds going forward. This will enable more vaccinations and save countless lives.
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Drinking in Bombay should mean drinking at quarter bars - the regular kind, not the hipster kind. Today's
#ParonormalActivity
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Iqbal Bano giving IIT Kanpur committee the ultimate deathstare /hum dekh rahe hain /main aaoon udhar?
#HumDekhenge
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What goes of Delhi people if Bombay experiences winter for 5 days, huh? Discuss. This week's
#ParonormalActivity
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In an alternate universe (yaniki twitter) there is a Paro, who received the letter :). Deeply, humbly, happy.
Thx,u made me realise what I stand for. Sumtimes one gets lost in transitions.Will try & be a ‘monkey face’ agiain.
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I wrote about
#RahulGandhi
and the churn of masculinities underway in our political/cultural sphere for Frontline's year-end issue (The Year of Challenges). Thank you to
@vaishnaroy
and
@shreevatsa_n
for asking me!
#masculinity
#politics
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#IndianMatchmaking
- we could have had a good relationship if the show did not have so many intimacy issues. I wrote about Indian Matchmaking for today's Economic Times.
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Is anyone curious about anyone anymore (including themselves)? A short history of dis-connection in today's
#ParonormalActivity
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"I convinced myself it was my lack of needs that made me worthy of love." To all who have been shamed for wanting love from someone who claims to love you. Warning: this will flood you with sadness
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The newspapers have been so careful to use photos that don't reveal the magnitude of the meeting, it's laughable.
When the history of the
#Muzaffarnagar
#KisanMahaPanchayat
would be written, the herstory of these thousands of women farmers & farm workers who mobilized from hundreds of villages to defeat the anti-farmer, anti-people
#Modi
regime would also be written in bright colors of 💚&💛
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Who will make the chapatis? Why I didn't learn to make rotis (feminism) and what I learned from learning to make them (feminism). Today's
#ParonormalActivity
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Quote Tweet with a photo of you that somebody else has taken. Selfies are not allowed. It can be old or new but ideally one that really captures you. :-)
Quote Tweet with a photo of you that somebody else has taken. Selfies are not allowed. It can be old or new but ideally one that really captures you.
Ok :-)
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I wrote for today's Economic Times about why
#FairAndLovely
dropping the Fair from its name just feels like white lies for brownie points.
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#Sabyasachi
and the sly print of fabric history - because the line between theft, appropriation and inspiration is rooted in ethics. Today's
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#ParonormalActivity
turns 10 today. A decade traumatising editors with late-sending & a chance to pay attention to the world. I went back to my first columns and found that goodness is as much to be found in this world as there is deliberate indifference.
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We celebrate 'woman power' when it resembles those in power. We glorify as 'women's strength" those who bear an unfair burden to support that power. Where does that leave women sanitation workers, ASHAs and anganwadi workers? Today's
#ParonormalActivity
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I'm so super happy that Aika to the Baika, a video I directed (something I get to do only sometimes now)won a
@Laadli_PF
award that I can accept looking like a chump in the photo 😄. Love you Shakku bai. You are too cool to be called a muse but you are something like it for me.
Congratulations to
@Agentsofishq
on winning the LMA for Web in Marathi for Aika To The Baika: Police Complaint Lavani.
@ALSharada
@UNFPAIndia
@norwayinindia
@NorwayAmbIndia
@SriramHaridass
@RituMotial
#Laadli
#LMA2021
#Regional
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#DeepikaPadukone
's persona has always been sincere and valiant. That persona comes together with Chhapaak and her visit to JNU, to present the movie star as citizen, reframing celebrity for a new age. My column
#ParonormalActivity
today
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Today the Supreme Court has been an agent of ishq!
Freedom has prevailed, Ishq has won today!
A big thank you to everyone who has spent years fighting for this day, this is for you, for all of us!
#377
#Section377
#LGBTQ
#queersbreaktwitter
#queer
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Yeh nahin toh kaun beh? A fan-love column for
#SrushtiTawade
and her incredibly engaging, fluidly genre-bending rap in today's
#ParonormalActivity
#MTVHustle
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Agents of Ishq is 5 years old! Whodathunkit! So, we made 5 minutes of pure pleasure to celebrate 5 years of pleasure, connection, learning and bloody hard work! Please watch (and please share if you love :)
#work
#SexEducation
#feminism
#art
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I never imagined
@AgentsofIshq
would turn into what it has. We are three. years old today. It's been 3 years of solid mehnat but also exhilarating learning and growing and co-creating a community with some amazing people. Thank you! ♥️♥️
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What a remarkable woman. I was impressed by her when the book controversy happened too and by her sense of choosing what enables her then, and now.
#MustRead
?
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We've heard the phrase "simple middle-class family" so much lately? But what's so simple about the simple family? Some truths about homes in today's
#ParonormalActivity
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If the Indian state outsources the project’s execution to an organization with capacity equalling Scandinavian government systems, with a very low error rate of 1%, 13.5 million Indians would still be erroneously excluded = displacement caused by Partition
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I have received an invitation to a virtual wine festival. The end is nigh.
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Friends I did not know that my film Q2P, about toilets and the city is the free film of the month on Royal Anthropological Institute Vimeo channel this month! Last two days to watch it now so please do if you're free like it is! Kasam se it is not boring
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Pleasure reintegrates sex with everyday life – but it also goes beyond the fixed destination of sex to embrace a spectrum of desires. Those who find sex difficult, or uninteresting, still have a desire for and a right to pleasure
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Funny how the very people who venerated and profiled successful men now seem shocked by their sexual violence. So maybe it's time to change how we define success. My column
#ParonormalActivity
today
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On
@manojkjhadu
's speech, the number zero and looking for numbers through emotion not calculation. Today's
#paronormalactivity
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Hello privileged peoples. "I have never faced a problem" does not mean there is no problem, ok? Thank you.
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#LustStories2
is more yawn sambandh than adult films. And given how fixated the men's films are on the climax, the news, friends is not good. My piece here -
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Rafi, Asha, Lata, Geeta, Kishore, Himmesh, Altaf Raja, Emiway. Songs I've listened to on Bombay's roads, in kali peelis, autos and Ubers. A rainy day
#ParonormalActivity
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"No data" reveals what and who counts - or doesn't. My column
#ParonormalActtivity
today
#nodata
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Very few people will tell you that making something you find beautiful and true is as good as making something big by the world's parameters. When you find them, keep them.
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I will not drink the cold beer in the fridge just because it is Saturday afternoon because I am aware that while others are doing chhutti I am working. But. I want to get a prize for this. If not, then I am going to drink it because yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye toh kya hai
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Agents of Ishq has partnered with Bumble India to create a Dating Manifesto! A little ishq, a little liberation, a little sense of self and sense of play to replace the usual manipulative games that pass for dating advice. Do check it out and share!
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WTF is
#TuesdayMotivation
?! Look, we had our chance on Monday. (I blew mine on old Hindi film songs on YT, it's true). But nahin ho paya toh accept karein instead of suddenly becoming rebel without a cause against alliteration. Being motivated everyday is inelegant.
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