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Book Review: Tanuj Solanki’s Diwali in Muzaffarnagar dispels old notions about small town India

By Avantika Mehta May 26, 2018 In BOOK REVIEW, Culture 0 avantika mehta, Book Reviews 0

Tanuj Solanki’s new book of short stories, Diwali in Muzaffarnagar, contains eight stories of young men and women, who grew up together in Muzaffarnagar.

This Young Artist Celebrates Women in Fiction Through Her Art

By Avantika Mehta May 7, 2018 In Art, Culture 1 36DaysOfType, Art 0

Women in Literature are becoming rarer than unicorns. Real women with jobs and life problems that don’t include finding Mr Right are the ‘Nessies of the publishing world.

Ahead of Mental Health Month, Artist uses #36daysoftype to Highlight Psychological Issues

By Avantika Mehta April 29, 2018May 3, 2018 In Art, Culture 0 36DaysOfType, avantika mehta 0

Megha Sharma aka @bewakoofladki on Instagram is a 21-year-old, self-taught graphic designer. After completing her schooling from D.A.V.

How to be a Man: A coming of age story about a boy, mistakenly born female

By Avantika Mehta March 31, 2018June 6, 2020 In Features, Pride 0 avantika mehta, Pinkesh Gupta 0

Pinky to Pinkesh, the journey has hardly been easy. Convincing family, paying for numerous surgeries, and becoming the sole breadwinner at home,

Jasoda: An Unrestrained and Poignant Telling of a Survivor’s Story

By Avantika Mehta March 22, 2018 In BOOK REVIEW, Books, Culture 0 avantika mehta, book review 0

In his seventh novel, Kiran Nagarkar returns to the Rajput setting that captured our imaginations in his celebrated Cuckold. But Jasoda veers and stutters where the earlier novel sang and danced.

How Women Are Remembered: a review of Nine-Chambered Heart

By Avantika Mehta March 22, 2018April 29, 2018 In BOOK REVIEW, Culture 0 avantika mehta, book review 0

It is interesting that Janice Pariat’s latest novel suggests that falling in love is easy. In The Nine Chambered Heart,

#InTheirWords: Why Must I Wax?

By Avantika Mehta March 2, 2018March 21, 2018 In Beauty, Features, Humour, Intheirwords 0 Hair Removal, Hairy Lady 0

“Show me your arms,” Kanta my waxing lady commands. I show them to her. My display she follows with one of her own: an upturned nose;

Uniting Through Differences: An Interview With IAmLikeOtherGirls

By Avantika Mehta December 9, 2017December 12, 2017 In Art, Culture 0 avantika mehta, Ellie Lee 0

IAmLikeOtherGirls started as an Instagram account on November 14. Their mission was to “redefine what it means to be like other girls,”

The Ladies Review: How Sustainable Is Zara’s Join Life Collection?

By Avantika Mehta December 8, 2017December 14, 2017 In Fashion, Reviews 0 Big Brands, Fashion 0

Sustainable Fashion has many benefits — a clear conscience, lasting clothing, personally meeting with the small label designers. But, since switching over,

Search Party is What Girls Would Be If The Characters Had A Purpose

By Avantika Mehta December 5, 2017 In Culture, TV 0 Alia Shawkat, Dark Comedy 0

A television series about a group of millennials struggling in New York — sounds like I’m talking about Girls, doesn’t it?

Boss Moves Only: An Interview with Maria Qamar aka HateCopy

By Avantika Mehta December 4, 2017 In Art, Culture 0 avantika mehta, Hatecopy 0

Maria Qamar, or as she’s Instaknown as @HateCopy on Instagram and Twitter is a young woman dealing with issues of mixed-marriages,

11 Must-Read Books About Violence Against Women

By Avantika Mehta November 25, 2017May 26, 2018 In BOOK REVIEW, Books, Culture 0 Books, IDEVAW 0

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. We thought the best way to observe it would be to put together a list of books that inform and educate about the prevalence and repercussions of violence against women.

#DelhiPride: The Silent B In LGBT

By Avantika Mehta November 25, 2017June 6, 2020 In Features, Intheirwords, Pride 0 Anjul Dandekar, avantika mehta 1

A month ago, Delhi organised an LGBTQIA Pride parade. A friend of mine was involved. On Twitter, he ranted about how journalists were calling him to ask for numbers of people who are gay or lesbian or transgender.