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Almost all the Shahrukh Khan in One Place

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  Because many people have been asking me, I'm collating links to most of my writing on SRK here. I say most of, because I don't even remember now how many types of things I've written on the subject and also, one short story which draws on his persona is not online so. And there are columns I wrote that I can't remember the names of, so I can't actually find them. A life of plenitude can be a life of chaos I guss! But for the rest.. 2013 On Chennai Express and how SRK makes space for different kinds of women Heroine Express 2015 On Sharukh Khan and the politics of love as a conceptual frame in my Mumbai Mirror column How To Find Indian Love Who is Worth Loving? On an alternative interpretation of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, which builds on that same thought, on the film's 20th anniversary  DDLJ Bees Saal Baad  2016  A long essay commissioned by Amrita Dutta for Indian Express Eye's special issue on 25 years of liberalisation in India, looked at what it m