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Nisha Susan

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ARTICLES BY NISHA SUSAN

Staircase wit is a competitive sport that many of us learn in middle school.

Opinion | The competitive sport of staircase wit

4 min read . 03 Oct 2020

In ‘Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahi’,Anupam Kher encourages his daughter to run away from her own wedding.

The art of controlling daughters

4 min read . 19 Sep 2020

Who would I be if I lived elsewhere?

3 min read . 04 Sep 2020

Writing fiction is all about treasuring the openness of readers, waiting to fall in love.

Why writing fiction is like engaging your core

5 min read . 21 Aug 2020

Representational image. Courtesy: Unsplash.

How to cope with working on an anti-revenge-porn project

5 min read . 09 Aug 2020

Each of us is also modelling behaviour for someone else.

Opinion I Are you looking for a heroine?

4 min read . 08 Aug 2020

Don Draper (Jon Hamm) in the final scene of the series ‘Mad Men’.

Opinion | I am finally living in the moment

4 min read . 24 Jul 2020

Lebanese choreographer Sara Karrit dancing to ‘Nobody’ by DJ Neptune with her family.

Opinion | Are you ready for social monogamy?

4 min read . 11 Jul 2020

You can throw your TV from the balcony, but send me your Chinese food.istockphoto

Opinion | Send me your Gobi Manchurian and Schezwan Idlis

3 min read . 25 Jun 2020

To be outside the world of gossip is to be left out of knowledge.

Opinion | Why gossiping is an essential service

4 min read . 12 Jun 2020

Like old-style online identities, people have varying degrees of skill and play with masks.

Does your mask offer too much social distance?

4 min read . 30 May 2020

Many of us are taught that fun is always for afterwards. But after what?

Do you always eat dessert first?

4 min read . 16 May 2020

It’s okay to say, ‘I don’t know what to say’, and to just be present. (Photo: Getty Images)

What to do when good people get bad news

4 min read . 01 May 2020

2020 is the morality play of AIDS played at 10x speed. (Photo: Reuters)

HIV to covid, the pandemic blame game continues

4 min read . 17 Apr 2020

A still from the movie Khubsoorat (1980).

Opinion | Home is where you remember you are alone

4 min read . 01 Apr 2020

Those thinking of the common good are likely to come out of this unprecedented disaster better (and less bitter). Credit: Getty Images

Covid-19: The international year of one-arm distance

4 min read . 19 Mar 2020

Rishi Sunak after his first cabinet meeting as Britain’s new finance minister (AFP)

Ready to send your child to politician school?

4 min read . 21 Feb 2020

The thing about sleep is you can’t work hard at it.istockphoto

Opinion | Why sleeping well remains a distant dream

3 min read . 07 Feb 2020

Artwork at Jamia Millia Islamia on the ongoing protests against CAA. (Photo: Sanchit Khanna)

How India lost and got her words back

5 min read . 24 Jan 2020

Students protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Bengaluru. (Photo: PTI)

The march of the millennials

9 min read . 27 Dec 2019

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