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Should we all just stop writing now?
It’s a sad day when a story that’s bad wins an award. It’s worse when the story isn’t bad in the usual AI slop way, but in the original way any writing is bad: when it’s crammed with devices and sentences you’ve come to expect will sound “l...
The gendered achievement complex that rules Indian households
I first encountered it in my parents, my family, my friends’ parents and their families, until it became indistinguishable from what was always propelling me.
When I started studying for the JEE, I felt like I’d found the meaning of...
The Bollywood movie that started a national eating disorder
In a still from her film Tashan (2008), Kareena is stepping out of the ocean, a lime green bikini glinting off her pale skin. Her taut abdomen and toned thighs and arms—and, at close glance, a few ribs—were testament to what had already b...
a day in my head
furious pace of thoughts and ideas. more than can be executed in a lifetime. pervasive sense of inadequacy. the feeling of not caring about anything but production. i am a lean mean capitalistic machine. brilliant, enterprising, always-on....
Can't we be more like trees?
These days when I find myself in the middle of a story I’m telling myself about whatever is going on in my life—about social interactions, my work, other people, relationships—I have learned to pause and ask why I’m in the middle of that st...
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