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Failed Liver Donor | Difficult Woman | Writing in Guardian, NYT, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Mint, Hindu, SCMP | Bunch of awards + fellowships | sohinichat@gmail.com

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    Sep 8

    One measure of a film star is how good they look with wet hair. This guy is 🔥

    Multiple rains days this monsoon. OK.
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  2. 1 hour ago

    There is still joy, still beauty in the world

    This makes other things pale in comparison. The world, its filthy politics, vile nationalism, stooges, brain dead masses and all the rest of the rubbish - they don't matter. concludes its year on…
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    7 hours ago

    "Music is a live organism. Hold it too tight and you can suffocate it and hold it too loose and you have no control." Interviewed conductor Zane Dalal who is brimming with poetic analogies

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  4. 8 hours ago

    Remarkable medical story by +

    "the online platform My Medi Travel, which connects patients with hospitals, recorded 36 queries from foreigners on Gender Affirmation Surgery in India..." No matter our conservatism on gender identity, if there is money to be made Indians will make it
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  5. 8 hours ago

    "the online platform My Medi Travel, which connects patients with hospitals, recorded 36 queries from foreigners on Gender Affirmation Surgery in India..." No matter our conservatism on gender identity, if there is money to be made Indians will make it

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  6. 20 hours ago

    "Yes, her beauty is important, but more than her beauty, the camera loves her transparency." I am having a real season in my film viewing and this piece really got *it*

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  7. 20 hours ago

    For those of us who are sport fans, who thrill at watching Indian women walk in with a possibility of really wining major events, these may be sad or confusing times. I'm been doing what political science 101 laid down: separating politics from all else

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  8. Retweeted
    Dec 5

    Alright, my of Martin Scorsese’s . (Couldn’t resist the headline.)

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  9. 21 hours ago

    Congratulations this seems to be what we all need to read now

    The handful of "brutal" rapes that make news are not isolated aberrations. Want to connect the dots with everyday patriarchy which hides in plain sight? Pre-order Fearless Freedom now! Forthcoming in Jan 2020 from
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    Dec 6

    ‘The suicide rate is going thru the roof. If we can save lives by talking about it, that to me is more important than winning medals,” courage in display with at the .

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  11. Dec 5

    Natural justice over law and order is here. Here's to nasty, brutish and short lives again as Hobbes had said

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  12. Dec 5

    It's ok if you don't have anything original to say about the "encounter" This is a valve to let off pressure. It's ok

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    Dec 5

    "India’s rightward shift, and the ascendance of Islamophobic politics in the garb of cow protection and vegetarianism" as reflected in Hindi cinema. Manufacturing the 'other', incisive as always, this .

    The film Mulk spends a few deliberate moments inhabiting the cooking, smelling and eating of meat in a Muslim household. A lovely dig at Hindu vegetarian pretensions follows as the father, played by Rishi Kapoor, teases his meat-loving Hindu neighbor 
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    Dec 5

    Proud of these women, their gumption and unity!

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    The Tvm Press Club Secretary just got arrested. This happened only because a bunch of women journalists from stood together. He barged into the house of our colleague, moral policed and assualted her. If you touch one of us, we wil retaliate. No longer your fiefdom
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  15. Dec 5

    We've moved onto now, but this week I wrote about -eating and Hindi film. Perhaps, we'll have Onions: Ek Dushman kii Kahani now?

    The film Mulk spends a few deliberate moments inhabiting the cooking, smelling and eating of meat in a Muslim household. A lovely dig at Hindu vegetarian pretensions follows as the father, played by Rishi Kapoor, teases his meat-loving Hindu neighbor 
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  16. Dec 5

    Anurag Kashyap's Mukkabaaz opens with the hero watching a WhatsApp video showing a man being murdered on suspicion of eating beef. The boxer responds to it casually, as if he is used to such blood lust on his phone. Later, the hero and his Dalit coach meet the same fate

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  17. Dec 5

    Perhaps, the most interesting film with meat is Raees, where Shah Rukh Khan underlines his Muslim identity like nowhere else. Early in the film, he asks for onions to go with his grilled meat, an entire action sequence takes place in a mutton market involving pink slabs of meat

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  18. Dec 5

    The film Mulk spends a few deliberate moments inhabiting the cooking, smelling and eating of meat in a Muslim household. A lovely dig at Hindu vegetarian pretensions follows as the father, played by Rishi Kapoor, teases his meat-loving Hindu neighbor 

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    Dec 4

    ‘This is the politics of the moment in India, with directives for both ends of our alimentary canal. And some Hindi films feel like a warning, as if our prime minister is reminding us to behave ourselves — or else.” Brilliant and pithy this essay by

    For The New York Times, I wrote about 's politics of meat and how recent film depicts the meat-eater. And it is not always without nuance
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  20. Dec 4

    I wrote recently about eating meat and the public narrative around it dictated by the BJP. Now, onions. Next what?

    "I don't eat a lot of onion," says Nirmala Sitharaman in parliament.
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  21. Dec 4

    When my mother got my ancestral house in livable condition, used to micro-manage her furniture orders at Urban Ladder to ensure the Mother did not suffer from general internet panic. All because she follows me here on Twitter and we chit-chat a bit. Such a comfort to Ma

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