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Gully Bai's casual casteism: A comedy video laughed at the marginalised — and reaffirmed prejudice
Simple Rajrah • 6 years agoThe irritable kaamwali bai, the patriarchal makeup didi, the crass, unskilled but arrogant autowala are tropes that have been circulating in the comedy industry for way too long to be considered accidental slips by the privileged-but-well-meaning content creators
Aziz Ansari row shows men wishing to be feminist allies must take off blinkers of privilege
Arnavdassharma • 7 years agoFar from an era of Victorian prudery, the discourse over the Aziz Ansari incident could usher in a radical redefinition of love and sexuality, something that is more in tune with gender power politics | #FirstCulture
The unbearable weight of the words: 'You can do it if you try'
Antaratelang • 8 years agoHow many times have heard that utterly idiotic phrase — “If you try hard enough, you can do it”?
Payal Rohatgi's Jet Airways flight rant: Dissecting everything that is wrong with her bizarre outburst
Siddhid • 8 years agoPayal Rohatgi decided to use social media and her 'celebrity status' to play the victim card, social media rightly decided to call her out instead
Why debate about intolerance is about loss of privilege and social media is responsible for it
Fp Archives • 9 years agoWhat has Facebook or Twitter got to do with the machinations of India which is now allegedly on the throes of an "intolerance" wave? In short, everything.