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On #FriendshipDay a thread of pieces by @parodevi on friendship, starting with this essay that asks, is friendship a romantic relationship? https://t.co/tq2PuVla30

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"It brings to mind an old political song by Brijmohan 'chale chalo dilon mein khwab, leke bhi chale chalo'. How do we carry dreams inside a broken heart? A song of that must soon be sung", writes @parodevi.

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On India's 75th Independence Day, it's important to remember that "freedom is an idea without limits, its meaning has to be continually renewed."
Reposting @parodevi 's column on Independence Day.
https://t.co/dNUGBeIci9

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Catch @parodevi Tomorrow
in “Bombay Hustle: Cinema as a Modern Workplace for Women”
with Dr. Debashree Mukherjee,
6:30 pm IST at IFBE, 10-12, Calicut Road, Ballard Estate, Fort, Mumbai, 400 001
Register here:
https://t.co/UYRWeFt2dy

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Catch @parodevi 's film, #UnlimitedGirls in ‘Woman Is As Woman Does', an exhibition featuring artworks by contemporary women artists at @CSMVSmumbai

Attend the inauguration on Aug 12, 6-7:30 pm
at the Premchand Roychand Gallery, 1st floor, east wing, CSMVS
RSVP [email protected]

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The lending library's charm lay in its Mills and Boons!#LibrariansDay
Being before the technicolour shelves felt romantic and frothy,like being in a Hindi film dream sequence. In a time of limited options,the books were a heaven of plenty
writes @parodevi https://t.co/a3g9oLT47C

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#HappyLibrariansDay! Can a roomful of books change our lives?
"It was a roomful of books but it was really a whole world, of desire, a chance encounter with a book, a thrill of possibilities."
Reposting @parodevi 's column on libraries.
https://t.co/gl3UiklhSc

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https://t.co/sDbdmKU7lZ
Interview with Sonal Shukla as it appears in Unlimited Girls (2002)

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Catch @parodevi in “Bombay Hustle: Cinema as a Modern Workplace for Women”
with Dr. Debashree Mukherjee on Thursday, 11 August, 2022 at 6:30 pm IST at IFBE, 10-12, Calicut Road, Ballard Estate, Fort, Mumbai, 400 001
Register here: https://t.co/F1NjcZ2czQ

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It's #Shashikala 's birthday today!
"Female antagonists also displayed a desire for power and importance, while heroines, however feisty, rarely challenged social structures."
Reposting @parodevi 's column on shashikala and women in hindi cinema.
https://t.co/vDwXdsRE20

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Yeh dil aur unki nigahon ke saye:
https://t.co/Ggb7W6uh6H

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"His songs are such an evocation of him that in loving them, people ended up loving him for the artiste he was. Here’s to the memory of Jaidev and his beautiful music, the food of our love."
Reposting @parodevi 's column on Jaidev on his birth anniversary. https://t.co/tAOMGXrEs0

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Tumhe ho na ho:
https://t.co/NhkbuiM4L4

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The life, abundance and delight trees bring is worth fighting for.
"The joyful movement to Save Aarey is worth supporting. Nature is here. Why send it away so it needs to “come back”?" writes @parodevi in #ParoNormalActivity
https://t.co/TKGirKlign

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"Not for Meena Kumari the advice of, “Hey, you’ve got to hide your love away.” Sometimes it is through tragedy that one might rule as a queen."

Reposting @parodevi 's column on Meena Kumari, on her birth anniversary.
https://t.co/3wBtSAnX9C

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"In beauty’s naked silence we could sense, rage, wound, emotion, self-belief, disclosure—sense a little of our own selves too. Beauty was quite marvelously enough", writes @parodevi in #ParoNormalActivity on the beauty in #RanveerSingh 's nude photographs. https://t.co/YODDSY5eEf

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"An unimagined combo is like pineapple pizza—a hit whether you hate it or love it. Is there anything more lively, more lifelike than surprise?"
writes @parodevi on the unexpected romance and gossip surrounding #SushLit in #ParoNormalActivity
https://t.co/Gy3wFsfN40

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"I can't help giving in to the secrecy of the light, the pause of time, the feeling that someone is listening very attentively to what I am feeling. That person might even be me." Reposting @parodevi 's column on daydreaming in the monsoon season.
https://t.co/K0AA6Emdxk

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"Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun but lovers go out in the rain. Even the messy, slushy, difficult Bombay rain." Reposting @parodevi 's column on the romance of the Indian monsoons.
https://t.co/ICrGwF7sYG