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Swara Bhasker

Swara Bhasker

Swara Bhasker is an award-winning Bollywood actor and sometime writer and social commentator.

Bitter Chocolate

Demands of my team (domestic chapter)

Demands of my team (domestic chapter)

As I boarded the flight to return to Mumbai after six months in Delhi, I made a note

By Swara Bhasker November 22, 2020
The magic of action and cut

The magic of action and cut

Vijaydan Detha in his short story, Rijak Ki Maryada, explores the relationship

By Swara Bhasker November 08, 2020
Stand up, Bollywood

Stand up, Bollywood

On my first trip to Pakistan in 2005, I was walking the bylanes of a Lahore market

By Swara Bhasker October 25, 2020
Caste deniers, crime deniers

Caste deniers, crime deniers

A column on Mahatma Gandhi, I thought as I opened my laptop to write this column,

By Swara Bhasker October 11, 2020
Gram and the generation gone by

Gram and the generation gone by

Social media has become the single-most defining development of the last decade, one

By Swara Bhasker September 27, 2020
Public decency has just perished

Public decency has just perished

Watching Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in London I was thoroughly shaken by it. The

By Swara Bhasker September 13, 2020
Eliot, you were so accurate

Eliot, you were so accurate

2019 was a bad year for me. Instagram seemed to agree that 2019 sucked for the world

By Swara Bhasker August 30, 2020
Connect with their uneasiness

Connect with their uneasiness

I remember going for a trek in 2016 to the Kinnaur Valley in Himachal Pradesh. It

By Swara Bhasker August 16, 2020
The pain behind the anger

The pain behind the anger

It’s been over a month since Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, and the air on social

By Swara Bhasker August 02, 2020
Tale of a quiet commitment

Tale of a quiet commitment

My parents had a ‘mixed love marriage’. My father is a Telugu-speaking Andhraiite

By Swara Bhasker July 19, 2020
The outsider who conquered Bollywood

The outsider who conquered Bollywood

I was in the middle of a workout when a generic forwarded message from an

By Swara Bhasker July 05, 2020
Just a bad play

Just a bad play

Bollywood has been at the receiving end of brickbats these past two months. On March

By Swara Bhasker June 21, 2020
Put yourself in their shoes

Put yourself in their shoes

For me, the first 56 days of the national lockdown was a housebound saga of domestic

By Swara Bhasker June 07, 2020
Nudes and gender naysayers

Nudes and gender naysayers

Last week, an unexpected controversy fired up electronic and social media, following

By Swara Bhasker May 24, 2020
On cloud nine in my zoo

On cloud nine in my zoo

One of my favourite children’s books was Grandfather’s Private Zoo by much loved

By Swara Bhasker May 10, 2020
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