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Can a Boy and Girl Be in Love But Just Be Friends?

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil also shows you that you have to negotiate consent at every stage of closeness with another person. Alizeh (Anushka Sharma) subtly has to do this with Ayan (Ranbir Kapoor), through the film. Originally co-published by The Ladies Finger & FirstPost “I was sexually assaulted by my best friend,” started an anonymous […]

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The Pure Desi Ghee of Poonam Pandey’s Popularity

Poonam Pandey explains her selfie-made success and how she mastered the art of her now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t appeal. Originally published on Yahoo! Originals & The Ladies Finger Poonam Pandey first started tweeting in February 2011. She was 20 and had been a model for three-odd years. In the first few weeks/months, she tweeted links to wallpaper versions […]

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I Will Tell You How Good Scripts Fall Out Of The Sky

Four Bollywood scriptwriters, two novelists, a filmmaker, a film critic and an anthropologist walk into Sulemaani Keeda – a movie about Bollywood scriptwriters. Originally published on Yahoo! Originals via Grist Media Sourabh Ratnu thinks there are at least 1,000 scriptwriters between the two Mumbai neighbourhoods of Versova and Bandra. Mayank Shekhar thinks there are anywhere […]