under Lakshmi Chaudhry

Love, Freedom and Delusion

Or the perils of exercising freedom in a half-changed world

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13 Mar 2010 | BY Lakshmi Chaudhry
For the Love of Marriage

It’s easy to blame what went awry on an antiquated model of marriage, yet those who married for love don’t seem to have fared any better.

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30 Jan 2010 | BY Lakshmi Chaudhry
The New Expatriate

Meet the 21st century heirs to the pucca sahibs, angrezi mems, and boxwallahs, haters and half-haters alike.

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9 Jan 2010 | BY Lakshmi Chaudhry
Meat Is the New Black

The newfound meat fetishism of well-heeled Indians reflects their desire to be seen as jetsetting bon vivants with a discriminating palate.

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21 Nov 2009 | BY Lakshmi Chaudhry
Sex and the City

Are one-night stands as unIndian as apple pie? Does the liberated bharatiya naari only have sex with strings attached?

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7 Nov 2009 | BY Lakshmi Chaudhry
Is He Gay, Is He Not?

The ‘wrong door’ thesis is gossip du jour in hip, urban circles. It’s the adult-rated version of picking daisies.

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17 Oct 2009 | BY Lakshmi Chaudhry
In Greed We Trust

A meditation on why we Indians constantly sniff each other for clues of status, much like dogs in a park to figure out who’s on top.

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3 Oct 2009 | BY Lakshmi Chaudhry
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