2021

Six Reasons Why Netflix’s New Show ‘Squid Game’ Wins – No Spoiler Review

As a person who finds it difficult to sit through a TV show, and who loses interest and starts looking at her mobile 10 minutes into any show / movie, binge watch is not really my thing. I have recently come to the conclusion that I can only watch limited series and that too over weekends. …

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Mimi Review: Flawed, But Has Its Heart In the Right Place

Surrogacy – Ethical, emotional, legal and commercial implications One of the first articles I wrote on Women’s Web on legal updates affecting women was on surrogacy. The year was 2016. The draft Bill banning commercial surrogacy had just been passed. Banning is always easier than regulation. This was my view in the article as well. Article link: …

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Haseen Dillruba! They Are Just Another Married Couple After All1

I was not interested in watching this movie. From the trailers and name, I felt like it was some idiotic movie justifying an extra marital affair, with an unnecessarily sensational murder plot. The negative reviews didn’t help either. Never had I imagined that this movie would touch me. The suspense or the crime part of …

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The Horror That 2021 Is…

  I had written ‘lockdown’ posts in 2020. Lockdown 1, lockdown 2, lockdown 3, lockdown 4 and so on. These posts revolved around sanitizing milk packets, Maggi not being available in the market,  Zoom calls with family as boredom relief and complaining about doing housework without maids. March 2020, my parents and so many other people their age received …

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