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Meher Manda

New York

Culture Critic, Writer and Editor at Freelance

Writer. Fierce Atheist. "Busted Models" (@nodearmagazine). Writer @jamunkaped. 📚 rep’d by @daniellechiotti & @kan_writersside

Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | thejuggernaut.com | Meher Manda

    “Recession ho raha hai. That’s why they’re re-releasing everything!” actor Kalki Koechlin says in a painfully honest podcast interview. “There’s no content! Everything is stalled, everything is stuck.”Bollywood is over! I’m not saying it — everyone else is. Look around you: on Reddit, YouTube, social media, or wherever die-hard fans of Hindi cinema are found. The sentiment (and frustration) feels ubiquitous. The stars are registering like PR-generated brand placements.

  • Feb 7, 2025 | thejuggernaut.com | Meher Manda

    In India, death’s aftermath can be a fairly ritualistic affair, almost clinical to a fault. In Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s Sabar Bonda, 30-year-old Anand (Bhushaan Manoj), a Mumbai call center employee, loses his father after a prolonged illness. Before he’s had a chance to process the loss, he must visit his native village of Kharshinde with his mother Suman (Jayshri Jagtap) and his father’s body for the customary 10 days of mourning.

  • Oct 18, 2024 | thejuggernaut.com | Meher Manda

    Over a decade ago, on the Mumbai local, I would play a game. Rubbing shoulders with others exhausted from a full day of work, I would stand at the train’s open door, gaze at buildings zooming past, and count every apartment playing the Amitabh Bachchan-hosted game show Kaun Banega Crorepati on TV. This little ritual allowed me to see the connections that tied us together in a city as disparate as Mumbai.

  • Oct 2, 2024 | thejuggernaut.com | Meher Manda

    Ten years later, Vishal Bhardwaj’s elegy for a land ravaged by violence remains as haunting as ever. Meher Manda. October 2, 2024. 11 minread“Do you remember what you used to say as a child?” Ghazala (Tabu) asks her son Haider (Shahid Kapoor). “What?” Haider asks. His mother wears bridal red with fresh henna on her hands; she is set to marry Haider’s uncle, Kuram Meer. The Indian Army in Kashmir, after all, has snatched and killed his father on suspicions of militant sympathy.

  • Aug 6, 2024 | thejuggernaut.com | Meher Manda

    For what seemed like an indeterminably long time — a year? — the Ambanis, India’s richest family, forced us to witness them celebrate the wedding of their youngest son, Anant, with Radhika Merchant. Several pre-wedding parties across continents culminated in an overwrought July wedding weekend in Mumbai. Yet, despite the vulgar excess, the Ambanis also fronted traditional values. Anant and Radhika married according to Gujarati Hindu rituals. Mukesh Ambani teared up at his daughter-in-law’s vidaai.

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