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  • Unpacking Article 15 and Bollywood’s Brahmin saviour complex

    When Bollywood writer/director Anubhav Sinha and co-writer Gaurav Solanki were looking to name a film dealing with systemic discrimination against the Dalits (people belonging to...
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  • Amazon’s Made In Heaven pulls back the veil on “crazy-rich” Indian weddings

    MADE IN HEAVEN (Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti). Nine episodes now streaming on Amazon Prime Video Canada. Five years ago, I travelled back to New Delhi...
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  • A Bollywood hit tackles a taboo: older people talking about sex

    BADHAAI HO (Amit Sharma). 125 minutes. Now playing cinemas. See listing. There used to be a time when Bollywood didn’t talk about sex. Instead, India’s...
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  • These musicians and thinkers want to spotlight the mystical dimension of Islam

    MISAQ-E-ISHQ featuring ALI SETHI, NOAH GEORGESON and ALI ASANI at Aga Khan Museum, Sunday, August 19. Rating: NNN The Misaq-E-Ishq performance started late, but I...
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  • David Chariandy writes a letter to his daughter about race

    Two summers ago, there was in incident at our neighbourhood park involving my daughter, who was six at the time. This story requires a bit...
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  • David Chariandy celebrates the uncool kids of Scarborough in Brother

    “I have to say right off the bat – I am uncool. It should be in print.” Sitting in A Different Booklist, a bookstore that...
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  • Bollywood enters unchartered waters with a rom-com about erectile dysfunction

    I settle into my seat at Cineplex Yonge-Dundas to watch a matinee show of Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, a Bollywood rom-com about erectile dysfunction, and I...
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  • Behind Parvaaz’s month-long Toronto tour

    PARVAAZ at the Hideout (423 College), September 7 and 9, 9 pm. $10. And at Small World Music Centre (180 Shaw studio 101), September 10,...
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  • Before you hide a guy in your closet, read Toronto pop artist Hatecopy’s Trust No Aunty

    For a while, I have been wondering what kind of an aunty I am. In South Asian culture – although this expression is pretty much...
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  • Shah Rukh Khan’s latest rom-com is exactly why Bollywood needs more complicated female characters

    About a third of the way into Jab Harry Met Sejal, the latest Hindi film starring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and winsome actor Anushka...
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  • From literary darling to polarizing activist: Arundhati Roy returns to fiction after 20 years of rabble rousing

    ARUNDHATI ROY reading from The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness at Bloor Street United Church (300 Bloor West), June 22, 7:30 pm. $8. Advance tickets sold...
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  • Pasha Malla: ‘Writers of colour are expected to explain themselves to a larger audience’

    For the longest time, Pasha Malla avoided writing about Kashmir. As the son of a Kashmiri father and British mother born and brought up in...
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