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parodevi
@parodevi.bsky.social
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#Delhi friends come say hi this Thursday or Friday!
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Best way to spend the month of love?

Go on a bookstore date with Paromita Vohra and Love, Sex and India!

Come say hi to us tomorrow at Midland The Book Shop and Bahrisons Booksellers and on Friday at Kunzum Books
Agents of Ishq

🌹#RepublicofLove #agentofishq #delhi
February 4, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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#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.
August 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Confessions of a workahlolic wallflower who is busy finishing a film and missing the movies. Today's #ParornormalActivity
www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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).
www.mid-day.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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The awful love of alpha male bonding. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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Yeh dosti
Men are however wrapped up in helping each other maintain this illusion it seems
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June 8, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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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...
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
www.mid-day.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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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
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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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
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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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May 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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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.
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.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Helloji Pedro Pascal. Yaniki ek jism mera matlabh hai kism ki #masculinity 😄 Today's #ParonormalActivity

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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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April 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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JK Rowling's big cigar and small heart in today's #ParonormalActivity
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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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April 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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#ParonormalActivity is 15 years old this week. Who knew I was such a committed bird :)
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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
www.mid-day.com
April 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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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...
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.
www.mid-day.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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March 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Because age is not a number. It's a sabzi.
Today's #ParonormalActivity
www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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
www.mid-day.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Obviously!
150 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 III 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
March 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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#Adolescence and the need to deepen the current conversation on masculinities. Today's #ParonormalActivity
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Manliness
Adolesence re-inaugurates a discussion on masculinity
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March 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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“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
March 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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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...
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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March 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Ramzan humour (I miss Pyari Bakri), Dakkhani delights and Roza pop in today's #ParonormalActivity
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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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March 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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March 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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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...
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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March 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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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...
'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...
people.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#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
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Scam girls
Then you are trapped, a digital scream competing to be heard in a hall of mirrors.
www.mid-day.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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When you get flowers for no reason in an era of emotional ghosting. Today's #ParonormalActivity
www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
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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February 16, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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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...
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.
www.mid-day.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM