Pooja Pillai
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Jul 18, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Indian Express
- Top 5K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 11, 2026
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We’re no longer hungry. Is that why Sonam Wangchuk’s fast doesn’t move us? (opens the original)
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I was a fussy eater as a child and my Ammumma’s chosen method of persuading me to finish everything on my plate was to narrate the story of how Lord Krishna once ate a single grain of rice, offered with love by Draupadi because that was all she had left in the house. “And it turned out that that was all he needed to be full,” my grandmother would say. It made no sense to me: What did any of this have to do with the untouched pumpkin and bitter gourd on my plate? This story of a god’s hunger, and
‘I would rather sit at home than do a film half-heartedly’: Parvathy Thiruvothu (opens the original)
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You have completed 20 years as an actor. There have been highs and lows. How has your perspective changed as an actor and an activist? When I started off, I was told that a female actor will have a maximum shelf life of seven years so make as much money as possible. As you get old, you won’t be as desirable. Desirability and likeability were apparently more important than talent or skill. What has shifted is that I feel more courageous to begin again. That’s a privilege I have earned over 20 yea
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