Snigdha Sur

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Forget American Tariffs — Is this India’s Free Trade Moment? | The Juggernaut

2 weeks ago | thejuggernaut.com | Snigdha Sur

On an April afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump stood at a podium, wielding a chart titled “reciprocal tariffs” like a courtroom exhibit. “India, very very tough. Very very tough,” he said. The number next to India? 26%. “The prime minister…he’s a great friend of mine,” Trump added, referring to Narendra Modi.
‘The White Lotus’ and the Illusion of Enlightenment

2 weeks ago | thejuggernaut.com | Snigdha Sur

The last episode of The White Lotus Season 3 opens with a shot of a Buddha statue, his hand curved around his heart. Monks walk along a bridge and into a temple. We then settle into the Buddhist monastery Piper Ratcliff is visiting during her weeklong vacation in Thailand. “Sometimes, we wake with anxiety,” monk Luang Por Teera tells his disciples. “What will happen today? What is in store for me? So many questions. We want resolution, solid earth under our feet. So we take life into our own hands.
‘A Nice Indian Boy’ is Lovely — and a Little Too Nice | The Juggernaut

2 weeks ago | thejuggernaut.com | Snigdha Sur

“Do you realize my only gay son is getting married?” an exasperated Meghna (a delightful Zarna Garg) asks the wedding planner. She isn’t satisfied with the barn he has shown her, and wants the best for her son, Naveen (Karan Soni of Deadpool fame). As Naveen and his fiancé, Jay, watch, all Jay can reflect on is how much Naveen’s mother loves him. You need to care about someone to get angry. And you only get angry about people you love.
Devika Rani, More than the Longest Kiss

3 weeks ago | thejuggernaut.com | Snigdha Sur

Legend has it that as hero and heroine shot for Jeevan Naiya (1936) — a Bombay Talkies production — they fell in love. The two actors eloped, the movie’s production stalled, and the studio head was in a bind. The studio’s sound engineer, Sashadhar Mukherjee, took it upon himself to convince the actress to return home to her husband, the studio head, and leave her lover. She said she would — as long as she could be financially independent and earn her own salary. Her husband agreed. She returned.
A Founder, a Divorce, and the Trial by X

4 weeks ago | thejuggernaut.com | Snigdha Sur

As the story goes, he was the top coder in India, turned down $100 million acquisition offers from Facebook and Google, and then co-founded Rippling, an HR SaaS company worth over $13.4 billion. Now, Prasanna Sankar is in the news for entirely different reasons.
A Founder, A Divorce, and the Trial by X

4 weeks ago | jgnt.co | Snigdha Sur

As the story goes, he was the top coder in India, turned down $100 million acquisition offers from Facebook and Google, and then went through Y Combinator with Parker Conrad to co-found Rippling, an HR SaaS company now worth over $13.4 billion. Now, Prasanna Sankar is in the news for entirely different reasons.
In ‘Baksho Bondi,’ One Woman Holds it All Together

1 month ago | thejuggernaut.com | Snigdha Sur

The morning rush is choreographed to the rhythm of Bengali rap. A woman moves through her house like clockwork, waking up her son (“Debu!”) and then her husband (“Utho Sundar!”) She packs their lunches, files documents into her husband’s briefcase, tells her son to make sure his dad showers and goes to the barber, and gives both money — money she’s singlehandedly earned for the family. This woman, Maya (a wondrous Tillotama Shome), doesn’t just have two “kids” at home.
Divya Bharti, Bollywood’s Lost Superstar | The Juggernaut

1 month ago | thejuggernaut.com | Snigdha Sur

When she died, Raveena Tandon got Mohra, Shilpa Shetty got Aag, Sridevi got Laadla, Tabu got Vijaypath, Kajol got Hulchul, and countless actresses got their big breaks in the 1990s. “She was only 18 but she was challenging all the tenured actresses. She was getting all the movies. They were all becoming hits,” one commentator pointed out. To this day, people whisper that the Bollywood hit (2007) — about a superstar actress who secretly marries a producer and then suddenly dies — is based on her.
Why is ‘The White Lotus’ So White?

1 month ago | thejuggernaut.com | Snigdha Sur

Near the end of The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 1, in an almost missable moment, Belinda — the masseuse who has arrived all the way from the White Lotus Maui to learn from her Thai colleagues — waves at a Black couple who are staying at the Koh Samui chapter of the famed luxury resort chain. After an attendant seats the couple for dinner, the woman in the couple smiles back at Belinda (Natasha Rothwell). No words are exchanged. It’s almost a tacit understanding.
‘Deli Boys’: The Spiciest, Tastiest Achaar

1 month ago | thejuggernaut.com | Snigdha Sur

A larger-than-life patriarch. A wedding. Lots of oil as a front for a family business. No, we’re not talking about the Corleones and The Godfather, whose iconic dialogue is seared into our collective consciousness (“I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse”), but about the Dars and their A.B.C. Deli business (“always be convenient”!). Arshad “Baba” Dar (Iqbal Theba) is the super-successful owner of DarCo, whose tentacles extend throughout Philadelphia and Delaware Valley.