Pravina Rudra
Opinion Editor and Writer at The i Paper
Opinion @theipaper . Words in @thetimes & other places, previously columnist & Comment Editor @newstatesman. Also, solo backpacking & (actually) ADHD
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Nov 12, 2024 |
inews.co.uk | Pravina Rudra
I should preface this by saying I’m not a broody kind of girl, or whatever the caricature of a 30-year-old woman is supposed to be these days (it’s hard to keep up, sometimes). I like newborns: their squidgy cheeks, and their instinctual need to curl their finger around that of even a stranger. But once they start talking and walking, my interest wanes. I dislike the way we patronise toddlers with baby babble, and the untruths we tell them.
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Oct 24, 2024 |
inews.co.uk | Pravina Rudra
Instead of hearing a jovial Wes Streeting proposing Ozempic jabs for unemployed people with obesity (courtesy of pharmaceutical company Lilly) as he did last week, imagine the suggestion being made by a previous Tory health minister – say, Thérèse Coffey or Jeremy Hunt. Quite a different image, isn’t it? You might well get Angela Rayner accusing the Conservative Party of “jabbing the jobless”.
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Oct 10, 2024 |
inews.co.uk | Pravina Rudra
At a birthday party last month, I found myself in the middle of a group of single young women aged around 30, all Labour or Green Party voters. They agreed, with only a trace of irony, that men should really be paying for dates. In that moment, I felt grossed out by what I perceived as hypocrisy. “How can we get equality if we expect guys to pay for things”, and all of that very basic, Feminism 101 stuff. In the weeks since, I’ve realised these women weren’t outliers.
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Sep 26, 2024 |
inews.co.uk | Pravina Rudra
Going “no contact” is no longer just an aspiration for rugby players in their thirties. There are now support groups and books and whole movements built around the concept of cutting yourself off from difficult family. Millions of people watch TikTokkers who tell strangers to go “no contact”, and the Reddit forum r/EstrangedAdultChild has 43,000 members. It’s not just online either.
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Sep 11, 2024 |
inews.co.uk | Pravina Rudra
What curses a marriage? Infidelity? Money worries? Nope – apparently it’s having your wedding featured in Vogue. On the back of a a TikTok series on the “cheerful Vogue wedding feature to quickie divorce pipeline,” the likes of The Times and Us Weekly started asking why everyone from Ariana Grande to Sophia Bush has been hit by “the Vogue wedding curse”.
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Wrote about how the West has been sold the idea that depending on others is unhealthy (self-care, self-help, self-actualisation), but we crave belonging to something bigger. No coincidence these new religions are called cults -whether CrossFit or tag rugby https://t.co/mI8WW6hZ8r
Wrote about why true Britishness is pretending nothing's happened when someone's being wacky in public, nul points, boasting about how crap your hometown is etc.Farage (owns 20 Union Jack socks) doesn't realise real pride in Britain is quiet & self-assured https://t.co/bOJOll4hnI
Religion always seems to come up with such weird and yet oddly uniform ways of undermining women https://t.co/2mE0HUWNJR
My column asking why we're so desperate to defend the idea that religion can be feminist. As someone who was once religious, feel we perform considerable mental acrobatics to suggest that the Pope stood up for women, or that the hijab is a feminist choice https://t.co/8hkDvsN0np