Reposted by parodeviMike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025#ToucanoftheDay An unamused Yellow-throated Toucan at Tapir Valley #CostaRica #birds #toucans #nature 352471284
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Confessions of a workahlolic wallflower who is busy finishing a film and missing the movies. Today's #ParornormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comMomo: The misery of missing outEven Pedro Pascal channeling Cary Grant in The Materialists, made me feel only a mild FOMO (which I pretended to others was severe). 010
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Shared with Public The awful love of alpha male bonding. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comYeh dostiMen are however wrapped up in helping each other maintain this illusion it seems 020
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 25/05/2025In a week awash with Cannefluencers, watching #BanuMushtaq and #DeepaBhasthi hug as they won the International Booker for #HeartLamp was beautiful. It was an embrace saturated with so many worlds. (Also, the book is beautiful). This week's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comFireflies and heart lampsTranslation, more visibly than other practices dispels the cult of the solitary genius, as it foregrounds the inherently collaborative nature of art 052
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025If you are in #Bombay: My film Unlimited Girls will screen at: -Harkat Studios, Versova -Saturday May 24, 6.30 pm Followed by a conversation between myself and their programmers. Do come and/or tell others. It's a ticketed show and tickets are available here -https://lnkd.in/dCMnJdnw 031
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Can you believe in love enough to not manipulate audiences into watching you? I stumbled upon She Came To Me, a lovely little film, not afraid to be lovely, or little, or odd and wrote about it in my column #ParonormalActivity today www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comLove, oddlyDinklage makes haste to leave, falls into the water and whoosh! His creative block is gone, as an entire new opera passes before his eyes 020
Reposted by parodeviThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/05/2025Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.nytimes.comJulia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family. 573185084253
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Helloji Pedro Pascal. Yaniki ek jism mera matlabh hai kism ki #masculinity 😄 Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comAnalog sexyBut if stardom tells us anything, it’s that we are beings of infinite desires. And desire is usually a question, not an answer 020
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 20/04/2025JK Rowling's big cigar and small heart in today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comSometimes, a cigar is just a cigarJK Rowling populates the mindset, typified by Donald Trump, that responds to heterogeneity with a domineering nostalgia for ye olde absolute categories 001
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 13/04/2025#ParonormalActivity is 15 years old this week. Who knew I was such a committed bird :) www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comIn sickness and health, I doWriting a column is also like being a maasi. You are inside and outside; free of daily attendance, yet responsible and involved 031
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 06/04/2025On April 9 it will be 5 years for Gulfisha Fatima in jail without bail. On April 9 it will be five years in jail for #Gulfisha Read her poems and think about what it is to be a young person who cares about the world toda. This week's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comPoems from prisonA passionate and articulate speaker, she grew into a young leader. In any other times this journey would inspire people, fill them with admiration. 135
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Because age is not a number. It's a sabzi. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comFor the love of laukiWhich young faces will not take on Charlie Chaplin expressions of betrayal and horror, self-pity and terror when confronted with lauki, turai, tinday and bainga 130
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 23/03/2025#Adolescence and the need to deepen the current conversation on masculinities. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comManlinessAdolesence re-inaugurates a discussion on masculinity 020
Reposted by parodeviAlina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 23/03/2025 “Eloquence is heard, poetry is overheard. Eloquence supposes an audience; the peculiarity of poetry appears to us to lie in the poet’s utter unconsciousness of a listener. Poetry is feeling confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude.” - JS Mill 0383
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Songs and words, strikes and solidarity and wondering what makes people capable of great personal kindness support systems capable of infinite cruelty. On being at the Kerala Asha Workers protest this #internationalwomensday in today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comSolidarity’s siren songWords are magic. So you can do magic tricks with them. ASHA means hope, like in “dil hai chhota sa, chhoti si Asha” 010
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Ramzan humour (I miss Pyari Bakri), Dakkhani delights and Roza pop in today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comRoza Pop is hereMuslim culture is usually represented in some typical ways: either in terms of religious zeal, especially when it is poorer communities 020
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025A hottest February. A long walk. Some K-shaped growth. Some burning cynicism, some burning hope. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comK shaped growth of the soulFinally, on February 6, when the Commisioner did not respond to their written complaint, they decided to walk to Mumbai 000
Reposted by parodeviMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 27/02/202536% of all banned books contain a character or a real person of color. But sure, this is about protecting the children. people.com/sex-claims-e...people.com'Explicit' Sex Claims ‘Exaggerated,’ Black and LGBTQ+ Characters Overwhelmingly Targeted, New Book Ban Analysis FindsA new PEN America analysis of books banned during the 2023-2024 school year shows which stories were disproportionately removed from shelves — and debunks “exaggerated” claims about books that feature... 17376531946
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 23/02/2025#AppleCiderVinegar is a compelling, well-made show. But it's also part of a growing genre of cautionary tales about women gone astray in the big bad world--of social media. Just that it replaces sex with selling your story. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comScam girlsThen you are trapped, a digital scream competing to be heard in a hall of mirrors. 020
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025When you get flowers for no reason in an era of emotional ghosting. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comPyaar in the times of PRSuch a posh place surely chucks them at the first spot of discolouration. And anyway, is it really stealing if it stays on the premises? 043
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Content Warning: Suicide, bullying The death of a student reflects the terrible mental health crisis among the young. But it equally reflects what privatised education breeds and the alienation which is our emotional AQI. This week's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comNo country for childrenThe day before his suicide he had been made to lick the toilet seat and had his head flushed in the toilet. 011
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Exuberance and the city, autos and Himesh Reshammiya. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comHimesh and the yellow autoAdd a little fancy English to the description, and it will be in an arts biennale before you can say, bhaiya Malad jaoge? 110
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The Roshans, on Netflix, is sometimes involving, but often frustrating--a corporate film masked as documentary. It's too bad that a popular cinema which captivated people does not have a captivating telling of its history. This week's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comBollywood livesThese are the very tales of outsiders and underdogs Bollywood once excelled in telling. In a society as hierarchical as ours, this pain is one many know and so 110
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 19/01/2025When the private relationship with art becomes a public performance of allegiance to the celebrity artist, what does that mean for our political thinking? Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comBetrayalPublic shaming brings its share of trauma no matter who you are. But, there is no substantive loss of power for Gaiman 012
Reposted by parodeviSarah Forde 🌙🪡 @sailorastera.bsky.social · 04/01/2025a lot of creatives fall into the habit of monetizing everything they do and there's something to be said for making your creations into cash but its so important to keep some of your creations just for yourself because when it becomes IMPERATIVE to perform you're on the road to burnout 953701544
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Never mind being good to yourself, hope you can find some really good questions to lead your way this year. This week's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comTo a year of beautiful questionsThe latter might describe my friends. I called Friend no. 1 with a cheery “Happy new year”. “Ya, ok” she replied. 010
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 30/12/2024We mock romance as a particularly female (and foolish) fantasy. But what about the fantasy men are bred on - the fantasy of #Masculinity? Or the fantasy of the 'simple family'? I wrote a bit on marriage, divorce and men's rights discourse for Hindustan Times www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumba... 020
Reposted by parodevi⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 29/12/2024every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger” 583248663639
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Because beginnings and endings are inextricably entangled, for the first note that builds a new song, we can choose either our despair or our yearning for what feels lost. Last #ParonormalActivity for 2024, on #civility www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comEndingsDr Singh, the architect of Indian liberalisation, leaves behind a complex legacy. 062
Reposted by parodeviJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Have whatever kind of day you want. I’m not demanding merry if you feel differently 123139581492
Reposted by parodeviWhiskyOpinions @whiskyopinions.bsky.social · 22/12/2024A thread for restaurant meal reports from my recent trip to Delhi. First up, a very nice lunch at Arunachali Sajolang in Humayunpur with @parodevi.bsky.social. myannoyingopinions.com/2024/12/17/a...myannoyingopinions.comArunachali Sajolang (Delhi, December 2024)Okay, let’s get the Delhi reports underway. I was/am in Delhi by myself for this short trip (when this posts, I will be 12 hours from departure) and so the eating out situation was very diffe… 121
Reposted by parodeviAlina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 23/12/2024The cactus where your heart should be has lovely little flowers so though it's always pricking me my ardor never sours The cactus where your heart once was has power to rend and flay I stick because I'm stuck, because I just can't tear myself away 0182
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Love notes and Christmas spirit from the land of law and order featuring Bombay High Court and Kolkata police in today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comLove, law and mathsTurns out I was not alone in thinking this. I had unexpected company—the Kolkata police. 000
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 15/12/2024The last time we said the word 'chaddi' so often in public was during the Pink Chaddi campaign. The Chaddi Aunty who has inflamed the Indian internet is different - or is she? Today's #ParonormalActivity #KaunseColourKiChaddiPehneHo www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comChaddi ki charchaPagal kar diya ki deewana bana diya? No one can say maybe because they are speechless. 010
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024This naughty baby #AgentsOfIshq turns 9 years old today, heading towards the Double Ds, dreaming of irrepressible political utopias. Its hum-suffers have been many, it's dil is ek and anek at once. Our birthday wishes are here 👇 agentsofishq.com/.../-agents-.... 122
Reposted by parodeviNilanjana S Roy @nilanjanaroy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Persons of the Year — two whose courage and integrity under extreme loss and horror stood out to me: Gisèle Pélicot, who spoke for so many when she said that "shame must change sides". And Wael al-Dahdouh: "They took revenge on us through our children." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...theguardian.com‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-DahdouhThe long read: After his wife and two of his children were killed in Gaza, Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh became famous around the world for his decision to keep reporting. But this was just th... 0188
Reposted by parodeviNPR @npr.org · 12/12/2024The pop star effortlessly illustrates in her music what it means to love and lose simultaneously.npr.orgBillie Eilish: Tiny Desk ConcertThe pop star effortlessly illustrates in her music what it means to love and lose simultaneously. 251244153
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024A thrilling tale of passion and postboxes #agentsofishq agentsofishq.com/post/the-les... 0127
Reposted by parodeviMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/12/2024“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas. Hit us up @hallmarkchannel.bsky.social @netflix.com 🙏 219122801776
Reposted by parodeviNilanjana S Roy @nilanjanaroy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024When @parodevi.bsky.social writes about chilli cheese toast, best of hot gooey messes. "The sharp chilli bites your tongue, the plump salty cheese caresses it, and so it can go on infinitely, a sweet lick of tomato sauce keeping the excitement fresh." www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comCheesy chilly toast in LaturThat day arrived in Latur. Scanning the menu, I spied it. Chilli Cheese Toast. Only the world’s bestest snack. 163
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Hahaha very bad, serving guilty. Imma assume you'd like it if you could eat chillis 020
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024The importance of being Chilly Cheese Toast (yaniki if you don't like CCT then we can't be friends, except maybe on Facebook). Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...mid-day.comCheesy chilly toast in LaturThat day arrived in Latur. Scanning the menu, I spied it. Chilli Cheese Toast. Only the world’s bestest snack. 151
parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Hi #Delhi peepuls! Looking forward to talking to @sandipr about my search for forms- film,writing,digital media, agony aunty columns,Hindi film songs - that make the radical possibilities of love palpable. At @RainbowLitFest this Saturday at noon. Come off! Tix on insider.in/rainbow-lite... 021