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@parodevi.bsky.social
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Filmmaker, writer, antakshari player

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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
#Delhi friends come say hi this Thursday or Friday!
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Hahaha
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
#ToucanoftheDay An unamused Yellow-throated Toucan at Tapir Valley #CostaRica #birds #toucans #nature
A black bird with a large yellow bill, bright yellow throat, and a red band across the upper chest, perched on a branch in the rain.
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Confessions of a workahlolic wallflower who is busy finishing a film and missing the movies. Today's #ParornormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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Momo: The misery of missing out
Even Pedro Pascal channeling Cary Grant in The Materialists, made me feel only a mild FOMO (which I pretended to others was severe).
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Shared with Public The awful love of alpha male bonding. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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Yeh dosti
Men are however wrapped up in helping each other maintain this illusion it seems
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
In 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...
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Fireflies and heart lamps
Translation, more visibly than other practices dispels the cult of the solitary genius, as it foregrounds the inherently collaborative nature of art
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If 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
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Can 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...
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Love, oddly
Dinklage makes haste to leave, falls into the water and whoosh! His creative block is gone, as an entire new opera passes before his eyes
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/05/2025
Julia 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.
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Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104
Soon 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.
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Helloji Pedro Pascal. Yaniki ek jism mera matlabh hai kism ki #masculinity 😄 Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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Analog sexy
But if stardom tells us anything, it’s that we are beings of infinite desires. And desire is usually a question, not an answer
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
JK Rowling's big cigar and small heart in today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar
JK Rowling populates the mindset, typified by Donald Trump, that responds to heterogeneity with a domineering nostalgia for ye olde absolute categories
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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...
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In sickness and health, I do
Writing a column is also like being a maasi. You are inside and outside; free of daily attendance, yet responsible and involved
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
On 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...
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Poems from prison
A passionate and articulate speaker, she grew into a young leader. In any other times this journey would inspire people, fill them with admiration.
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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hahaha yeh Kahan aa gaye humm...
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Because age is not a number. It's a sabzi. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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For the love of lauki
Which 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
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Obviously!
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Tristan Tzara
you are anxious but I am confident many soldiers with new gazes
the narrow layers of air stretched out the strong light falls from the stairs
filtration through the grillwork of relationships the elephants go to bed black satellites
is this a prospectus of appearances? lead us under the curtain and in the familiar dressing-rooms an unexpected finger suddenly touches us
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it is only the beginning
my soul again a studio of paper flowers I have not forgotten my mother however the last meeting (so auspicious) she would forgive me I think it is late
you find in all the corners uncontrolled drum beats if only I could sing always the same always somewhere this blinding light the ants transparency surging forth from the guilty hand
I shall leave
the carved wood madonna is the poster the criticism opaque silence cut by the uneven tick-tock my heart lengthens the fifth measure and the glory glimpsed
the velvet curtain after the final march with the subtlest inflection do you think of me four numbers on the wall with the last
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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...
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Manliness
Adolesence re-inaugurates a discussion on masculinity
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Alina 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
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Songs 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...
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Solidarity’s siren song
Words are magic. So you can do magic tricks with them. ASHA means hope, like in “dil hai chhota sa, chhoti si Asha”
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Ramzan humour (I miss Pyari Bakri), Dakkhani delights and Roza pop in today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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Roza Pop is here
Muslim culture is usually represented in some typical ways: either in terms of religious zeal, especially when it is poorer communities
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
A hottest February. A long walk. Some K-shaped growth. Some burning cynicism, some burning hope. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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K shaped growth of the soul
Finally, on February 6, when the Commisioner did not respond to their written complaint, they decided to walk to Mumbai
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
36% 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...
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'Explicit' Sex Claims ‘Exaggerated,’ Black and LGBTQ+ Characters Overwhelmingly Targeted, New Book Ban Analysis Finds
A 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...
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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...
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Scam girls
Then you are trapped, a digital scream competing to be heard in a hall of mirrors.
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
When you get flowers for no reason in an era of emotional ghosting. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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Pyaar in the times of PR
Such a posh place surely chucks them at the first spot of discolouration. And anyway, is it really stealing if it stays on the premises?
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Content 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...
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No country for children
The day before his suicide he had been made to lick the toilet seat and had his head flushed in the toilet.
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
An older essay from when Himesh first hit the scene, written for Time Out parotechnics.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-no...
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A NOSE FOR MELODY - THE BALLAD OF REMIX HIMESH
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Exuberance and the city, autos and Himesh Reshammiya. Today's #ParonormalActivity www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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Himesh and the yellow auto
Add a little fancy English to the description, and it will be in an arts biennale before you can say, bhaiya Malad jaoge?
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
well made - I don't find any of these shows. But Angry Young Men did have some great archival content and a few candid interviews that helped.
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The 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...
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Bollywood lives
These 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
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
When 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...
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Betrayal
Public shaming brings its share of trauma no matter who you are. But, there is no substantive loss of power for Gaiman
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Sarah Forde 🌙🪡 @sailorastera.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
a 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
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Never 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...
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To a year of beautiful questions
The latter might describe my friends. I called Friend no. 1 with a cheery “Happy new year”. “Ya, ok” she replied.
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
We 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...
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Started therapy with a Jungian therapist
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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
every 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”
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Because 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...
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Endings
Dr Singh, the architect of Indian liberalisation, leaves behind a complex legacy.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Have whatever kind of day you want. I’m not demanding merry if you feel differently
an orange cat lays on the carpet staring into the distance wearing a christmas fashion collar with holly leaves and jingle bells. the tweet from last year says “They got me. I’ve been jingled.”
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WhiskyOpinions @whiskyopinions.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
A 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...
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Arunachali 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…
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The 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
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Love 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...
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Love, law and maths
Turns out I was not alone in thinking this. I had unexpected company—the Kolkata police.
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The 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...
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Chaddi ki charcha
Pagal kar diya ki deewana bana diya? No one can say maybe because they are speechless.
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Praying for your reunion
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
😊♥️🍓
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parodevi @parodevi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This 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-....
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Nilanjana S Roy @nilanjanaroy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Persons 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...
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‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh
The 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...
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Natasha Joseph @tashjoeza.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This is a delight!
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NPR @npr.org · 12/12/2024
The pop star effortlessly illustrates in her music what it means to love and lose simultaneously.
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Billie Eilish: Tiny Desk Concert
The pop star effortlessly illustrates in her music what it means to love and lose simultaneously.
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