The human race
THE WEEK India|October 08, 2023
I don't follow any 'Humans of' pages on Instagram. To me, they seem to be a mix of Reader's Digest's Drama in Real Life series and the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and I find them too on-the-nose or treacly sweet. Besides, I keep getting the feeling that Bollywood story scouts are reading them breathlessly over my shoulder, trying to find plots for the next luridly uplifting 'based on a true story' blockbuster.
ANUJA CHAUHAN
The human race

I do, however, enjoy photo-stories shared by Mayank Asuten Soofi on his wholly desi and beautifully detailed @thedelhiwalla feed, the stories that sometimes come up on the @pari.network (P. Sainath's People's Archive of Rural India), as well as the tales of couples who broke the 'love laws' (of faith, caste, gender, abilities, nationality, etc) that feature on Priya Ramani's India Love Project. My husband and I have even featured on India Love Project-Priya reached out to us herself, no money changed hands and the whole interaction was entirely pleasant and enriching. However, everybody has different tastes.

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