Sunday Exhale: #MakeOutInIndia; Beer Myths; Gandhi the Great?

It’s Sunday. Relax. Exhale. And enjoy The Quint’s best, breeziest week through the week.

Sit back and enjoy some of The Quint’s best works this week. (photo: iStock)

It’s Sunday. Relax, exhale and sample some of The Quint’s finest stories from the week gone by.

Sex Reasons The Quint Wants to Make Out in India

The Quint’s ‘Make Out in India’ – have your say with us. (Photo: iStock)

Let’s do away with the whispering and the shoving under the carpet. Celebrate the #MakeOutInIndia campaign with us! The campaign is an open celebration of all matters of sex, no holds barred!

The Quint launches a Make Out In India initiative. And here is a listicle of recent episodes that triggered this campaign.

Here’s all the Mubarakkas to Hotties and Smarties born in October!

Will always consider you as the Diva No. 1, everyone in the world does. (Photo courtesy: Jagdish Mali)

Oh, it’s about to rain birthdays galore this month. And as the ritual goes, satellite TV channels, webzines – and practically every media outlet you can imagine – is readying gift-wrapped packs for the movie celebrities who will add yet another year to their fabulous careers.

Five Weird Places to #MakeOutInIndia

Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone making out in a car in the movie Love Aaj Kal. (Photo: YouTube Screengrab)

Let’s face it – being the world’s second largest population, couples in India have a rather tough time finding quiet, undisturbed places to peacefully make out. There are people EVERYWHERE. Add to that some over zealous moral policing, professional voyeurs and inquisitive family members and #MakeOutInIndia remains a distant dream no matter what the country hopping leader says.

Here’s a list of places that yours truly, and people known to yours truly, have made out in. See if they do you any good!

Are You Fated to Be Fat?

Sometimes, no matter what we do to lose weight, the weight somehow remains in the places we want it the least (Photo: iStock)

It’s a big fat epidemic.

A conversation on obesity always boils down to the fact that obese people are eating themselves to death and are too lazy to workout. So is it always a matter of personal responsibility? Do fat people always have the capacity to control their weight? But if people did have the capacity to control their weight, wouldn’t they already have?

Have you ever paused to think that body weight may not always be a matter of will power? That it might not be as simple as calories in, calories out?

How the Marvel Universe Ruined My Life

Poster of The Avengers

Aakash Joshi’s social life is dead and his internet bills are huge. And his dreams are messed up. A Marvel Cinematic Universe fan laments getting into the films in the first place.

Five Ridiculous Things People Say About Beer

Does Indian beer have glycerine? How can I avoid a beer belly? Is dark beer always stronger than pale? Karina Aggarwal, beverage expert, answers all these questions and more.

How Original is Salman Khan’s Prem Ratan Dhan Payo?

Prem seh log inne Salman Khan kehte hai. (Photo illustration: Lijumol Joseph)

Move over Rahuls, it’s time for Prems to rule the Box Office. Salman Khan aka seedha-saadha Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi of Bajrangi Bhaijaan is back with one of his favourite directors, Sooraj Barjatya in Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (PRDP).

Looking at both the posters, we got thinking how original Barjatya’s PRDP actually is.

Rainbow Man: It’s Not About What Does or Doesn’t Make Gandhi Great

School children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi take part in a march to mark the birth anniversary of Gandhi in Delhi (Photo: Reuters)

Over the last few years we have seen a lot of Gandhi bashing, especially on social media. The man, has today become a hugely polarizing figure. You either love him or hate him.

More than question the relevance of Gandhi, it’s time we questioned our own relevance, says Harish Iyer.

How The Hindi Heartland Lost its Heart to English

However much the Indian government pushes the idea of Hindi, the country is in a hot pursuit of English. The need for a common language in an increasingly globalised community, is making English more important than ever.

#LoseItLikeBhumi or be Forever Alone? A Former ‘Fat’ Girl Wonders

Bhumi Pednekar then (Photo: YouTube/YRF) and now (Photo: Instagram/psbhumi)

In a country that stereotypes feminine beauty in air-tight boxes of “thin, pretty, fair, tall, convented”, I felt pretty inadequate.

Why is being fat an impediment to finding love, laments Sreemoyee Piu Kundu.

Give Me Lata and a Harmonium, I’ll Make Music: SD Burman

Lata Mangeshkar and SD Burman creating magic together (Photo: Twitter/@chitralekhamag)

One of Hindi cinema’s most celebrated music composers SD Burman, was born a royal prince, but his music was always close to the soil. On the maestro’s 109th birth anniversary, we celebrate his deeply emotional voice, with a few interesting quissas from his personal and professional life, that will rekindle the sweetness of his music, with memories of cinema’s most glorious musical era.