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#SPEAKYOURMIND WITH AISHWARYA DUTTA
How would you define yourself? I would define myself as a confident person who looks at life positively. I push myself to handle difficult situations and I am self-motivated. My way of looking at life is very clear; sometimes things go as planned and sometimes...
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WHERE DID SHE GO?
I come from a family of strong women and yet, all these strong women that I look up to are faithful followers of a religion that has no place for the Goddess. Monotheism has no place for a female deity and I could wax eloquent...
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#SPEAKYOURMIND WITH SARJANO KHALID
How would you define yourself? I think I would always define myself as a person who is in the constant pursuit of happiness. First thing you do when you wake up? The first thing I do when I wake up is look into a mirror...
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MANAGING WORK, LIFE AND YOU
The typical day in the life of a working woman is nothing less than frenetic. She’s up early, cooks, prepares the to-do-list for the day, packs food for the spouse and kids, and rushes to get to work on time, only to rush back to...
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BEND IT LIKE MASTHAN
When Masthan Maharaj looks back on his journey, he still feels it might all be a dream. For from where he started, he has sure come a long way. Masthan grew up in Chennai, watching Ronaldinho and Cristiano Ronaldo and being in awe of their...
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YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A REBEL TO BREAK TABOOS
How amazing that an issue that is dedicated to breaking taboos also saw our cover-girl break a few in the process! It all began with photographer Vasanth Paul asking Pranitha Subhash if she would plunge into the pool for the first shot of the cover...
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NINE RASAS. NINE TABOOS. NINE THINGS WE NEED TO BE TALKING ABOUT.
WHERE SEX IS JUST EXCESS Asexuality is a lesser known identity on the LGBTQI+ spectrum due to the limited voices echoed in mainstream media. Raveena Joseph speaks to Pushpa Achanta about the asexual experience…   When Pushpa Achanta discovered the truth about her sexuality, she...
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A SECRET WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED
Say hill station in Kerala and Munnar would be what immediately springs to one’s mind — sprawling green tea plantations, spectacular views and above all, a cool climate. The town has it all. But then, the tourist destination has become so commercialized in the past...
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PRAGUE ON MY PLATE
At 1:30 in the afternoon, we are as hungry as we are tired. Our feet are blistered, our bellies are rumbling, and we seem to have no energy to explore the beautiful city around us. We are on the penultimate day of our budget trip...
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NO COUNTRY FOR SUBTLETY
“That was the Past. Tie me, tether me so I don’t stray there again.” I Have Become the Tide – Gita Hariharan I read a review recently which argued that fiction was not free of the necessity to be political. If we address a subject,...
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