It’s Sunday. Sit back. relax and enjoy some of The Quint’s best feature pieces from the week gone by.
Movie Review: Aishwarya is Loud, Randeep Gives ‘Sarbjit’ His All
Just like a magician makes the white pigeon disappear into this air, Omung Kumar can take true stories and drain all life out of them… leaving us with a hollow, vacuous, sorry consolation! He did it with Mary Kom and betters his own record with Sarbjit! For more, watch The Quint’s review.
For Women, Vicious Online Abuse is Just a Twitter Troll Away
Recently, TV journalist Barkha Dutt tweeted about an abuse campaign that targeted her by mass-sharing her contact details, filling her inbox with sexual slurs of the most vile sort. Like Barkha, if you are a fairly well known woman on social media, the brickbats will only be harsher and more vicious than those for men. Click here to read the full story.
Move Over VK Singh: Akbar & Maharana Pratap Fight Over Road Naming
After Aurangzeb Road was changed to APJ Abdul Kalam Azad Marg, there has been a demand from some sections (most notably former army chief VK Singh) to rename Akbar Road after Maharana Pratap. The naming and renaming of landmarks has become another costly casualty of a fairly childish politics. The Quint decided to show you how the great kings themselves, a liberal Muslim and a staunch Hindu, would have reacted to the controversy around them.
India and the New Age Bikini Bazaar
Call it an effect of the globalisation wave or the emancipated thinking of women, the bikini – which for so long has been a subject of much scorn and vilification in India – has undergone a dramatic facelift.
Just Wanted to Convey a Message to Fellow Mommies: Shveta Salve
TV Actor Shveta Salve is breaking the norm by proudly showing off her baby bump through a series of photographs shot by Monisha Ajgaonkar in different moods and tones.
Through the medium of these photographs, the actor says she wants to encourage all mothers to embrace the beautiful transition from ‘womanhood to motherhood’.
Finding Rehana Sultan, the 70s ‘Chetna’ Sensation
Yesteryears’ actor and 70s sensation, Rehana Sultan now lives in a building called Parchhaiyan, a name that she says is “quite appropriate for someone who’s now living in the shadows.” Once a National Award Winner, she is now looking for work in the movies and can play anything from a mother to an elder sister.
Aisa Q? With MufflerMan (Episode 2)
This week, MufflerMan talks about the assembly election results and shares his travel plans. Watch this video to find out what he has been up to.
Can’t Lose Weight? 5 Hormones in Your Body Might Be Out of Whack
It seems most of us don’t consider or simply side step the important impact hormones can have on our weight. So what does one do about it? Hormones sound complex (after all, there are about 200 of them working in the body) – but it is not that difficult to tame them.
The goal is to gently reset them – turn on those that help us lose weight and keep in check those that help pile the pounds – on a day to day basis.
This Medical Breakthrough In Stroke Treatment Can Save Millions!
Scientists have found that lower doses of the most common clot-busting drug in stroke patients could save millions of life.
Every three seconds someone gets a stroke in India and every three minutes a person succumbs to it - precisely why the modified, shorter treatment which can save millions is really important to understand.
Sensationally Titled ‘How I Raped Your Mother’ Hits Hard
TVF’s new video on marital rape is provocatively titled How I Raped Your Mother and just like the title, the content of this 13-minuter is something that makes you sit up and take notice with canned laughter and awwws in place.
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