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73Political Correctness: The enemy of Art?
Political Correctness 1 OK, so no one is blind anymore, they are visually challenged. No one is ever mad or retarded, they are intellectually challenged. Also no one is fat these days, they are big, plus size, curvy. Oh! And people stopped...
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65Michael Jackson: Black or White ??
Now with Mikaeel (or the artist previously known as Michael Jackson, aka Wacko Jacko) much in the news for his name change and religion change and all, I keep thinking of his other spectacular changes over the...
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73Kate Winslett & the Battle with the Bulge
She was called 'blubber' in school. At age 15 she weighed about 14 stone (that's nearly 90 kilos). In a sea of wafer thin Hollywood actresses, Kate Winslet has always stood out; in more ways than one: for her...
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66Bollywood and the Bikini
Time was that the bikini was a shocking rarity in Indian cinema, which each time an actress appeared in a bikini raising eyebrows and causing tongues to wag. The supposedly modest Indian woman being seen in this, the briefest of togs was a positive...
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65The Aunty Syndrome
(Written for and published previously at Delhilive.com) Call me behen, didi, bhabhi, ma’am, even (gasp) behenji! But not Aunty! It is a widespread phenomenon (or do I mean malaise) of the Indian subcontinent, that the minute a woman gets...
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83The Truth about Maggi Noodles
First Published on Delhilive.com on 9th August 2011 The first thing that I was actually ever allowed to cook was a packet of Maggi Noodles. Those same noodles which my generation and I loved, is now loved by my children and their generation;...
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72The Kama Sutra - Not Just a Sex Manual
Anyone who has been to India or has read enough about India would have seen ancient Indian sculptures or pictures of them; even someone with the most rudimentary idea about India would we familiar with the...
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66Bizarre Laws
I came across this old book at home about strange, ancient laws. Some of them were so strange as to be hilarious so I decided to take look at strange existing or strange laws at present in force. There was...
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68Is Thin In? Or Out?
I was inspired to put together this post when I read Christine Alzaraz's post this morning:Are you Skinny Enough to Fit thru A Lifesaver. I don't think it is so much a question of shifting perceptions within...
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65The Modern Lyricist as Poet
Through my college years of studying English Literature, my friends and I were held in thrall of that bard beyond compare, of William Shakespeare, the name that is synonymous with drama and literature like no...
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