It’s a Sunday. Unwind and unplug with The Quint’s soft reads of the week.
Confessions of a Born-Again Vegetarian
Shunali Khullar Shroff had been toying with the idea of giving up meat ever since a goat she had begun to befriend died an unnatural death on Bakr-Eid the previous year.
Along with goats and sheep she also gave up eating other mammals, embracing GB Shaw’s philosophy –“Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends”. But she has stuck to this rule only with mammals and not the entire animal kingdom. For fish die the moment they are out of water: we don’t necessarily have to kill them right?
Sultan is Sexist (& Having Salman Khan Does NOT Make it Okay)
Anushka Sharma as Aarfa, whose only aim in life is to be an Olympic gold medallist shuns that dream after getting the biggest gift of all: motherhood. Now sure, you can argue that choice – but consider this: Where does the character of Aarfa wisp off to after her role in Sultan’s transition is done? She’s crafted the wrestler, offered him a ‘lakshya’ and then has mysteriously little to contribute to the story. Sultan, of course, has a whole pro-wrestling league blitzkrieg waiting for him, but that’s another story…
Sania, Dipika, Dutee: Indian Athletes Who Smashed Patriarchy
A visibly riled Sania Mirza on Thursday told Rajdeep Sardesai that motherhood is not equivalent to success for a woman. While Sania has inspired many with her admirable grit and views on sexism, there are other Indian athletes, too, who have fought the same demons, and emerged victorious. From Dipika Pallikal’s fight for equal pay to Jwala Gutta and Dutee Chand’s crusade against body shaming, our desi sportswomen have boxed it all.
Baba Ramdev ‘Butts’ His Way Into The Quint’s Website
On Thursday, Baba Ramdev became the ‘butt’ of all jokes on social media as he flexed his muscles in a god-knows-what aasan for the cover feature of India Today magazine.
Phir kya tha, Twitterati had a field day by photoshopping his image to whatever they thought was hilariously appropriate. So we at The Quint too decided to have some fun with Babaji and flaunt our creative and photoshop skills to the world.
Fun With Potholes: We Make the Best of a Bad (Government) Job
Potholes can be painful but if you use your creative side, the very same holes look different and funny. And that’s exactly what we at The Quint have tried to do with the boring, ugly looking potholes that have screwed your back during daily commutes.
From Trump it louder...
To a hole-in-one!
Photo Feature: Bombay’s Love Affair With the ‘Kaali Peeli’ Padmini
For our Quint Lens feature, we showcase the refreshing and bold work of Dougie Wallace, a Glasgow-based photographer who travelled to India 18 times, for a week each time, to capture the bite-sized Mumbai found in each one of these cabs in his project Road Wallah.
Movie Review: Great Grand Masti is a Pervert’s Sexual Fantasy
Indra Kumar’s latest directorial venture Great Grand Masti, has nothing to do with the three words that constitute it’s name ! It can be best described as a visual translation of a pervert’s sexual fantasy. There is Urvashi Rautela who plays a “daayan” who can’t keep her hormones in check and hence spends her time gyrating to ridiculous songs to win the approval of the 3 men – Ritesh Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani and Vivek Oberoi. The childish sexual innuendoes and slapstick humour makes it a 127-minute-long painful watch . It is best to give this one a miss.
A New Campaign Has Women Posting Selfies Wearing Shorts & Smoking
Have Shorts, Will Smoke.
It sounds easy, but isn’t, for an Indian girl. For many of us, such actions bring with them the heaviness of judgment, the heaviness of social stigmatisation, and the heaviness of victim-blaming and slut-shaming.
The campaign #HaveShortsWillSmoke aims to fight this rigorous moral policing. Started by Bruce Vain, the co-founder of Spoilt Modern Indian Woman, an inter-sectional feminist initiative, the campaign invites women from all over the country to send them stories of wearing shorts and smoking, collates these onto its website and social media channels, so as to present a narrative of the societal bullying that women go through, simply for exercising choices they are legally eligible to make.
How To Lose Friends and Alienate People but Catch All the Pokemons
Gotta catch’ em all!
Yeah! Pokemon Go is the newest and hottest game in town and we all like it. Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle... How many have YOU caught?
But wait! Before you run off to the next Pokestop, we would like to draw your attention to some of your fellow ‘trainers’ who are competing with you for the same spoils. We give you some tips that will help you to gear up for the challenge!
Summer on a Plate: Here’s How to Make Delicious Mango Custard Pie
It’s mango time. And we get you the easy-as-hell recipe to make sumptuous mango custard pie.