Bollywood stardom has always seemed head-swivellingly divine. Actually, such romantic personas are shaped by reality, chance and calculation.
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On screen, as in life, the many-splendoured thing makes us want to identify with the other
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SRK’s persona evokes the kind of Indianness that denies categorisation into singular, exclusive identities. And thrives on making others feel welcome.
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Not taste and aesthetics, but class and power draw the line between porn and erotica. Exploitation happens everywhere in the world of real-world sex—not just in porn.
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The digital age has held up a salad bowl of the sexual. Paromita Vohra looks at the polyphonic eco-system of desire and custom of young, ‘liberated’ Indians.
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