Prerona Maity

“I require so much!” Marianne Dashwood made this impassioned declaration in chapter 3 of Jane Austen’s 409-page Sense and Sensibility and sometime into Georgia Oakley’s 2026 movie adaptation currently playing in theatres. Those four words, uttered with such flagrant confidence, caused my Indian body to cringe reflexively. As a lifelong Janeite, Marianne’s demands have always made me uncomfortable in ways I’ve never been able to justify.

還記得在正式上班前一週，我和一位閨蜜聊天，當時我們漫無目的地閒聊，從痘痘貼聊到交友軟體上那些大男人主義的奇葩男。結果，她突然說出了我此生聽過最傷人的話： 「你都這個年紀了，去雜誌社做實習生不覺得太老了嗎？」 我看得出來她只是脫口而出，完全沒過腦子。那口吻平淡得就像在提醒我褲子拉鍊沒拉，或是嘴角沾了番茄醬一樣。掛掉電話後，我維持著原本的姿勢在沙發上坐了好久，腦袋裡不斷盤算著她剛才的言外之意——偏偏我以前上學時最差的就是算術，好幾次差點被當掉。也許我當時該直接跟她講實話： 「這行業要的是年輕、有經驗、抗壓性強又便宜的肝。明知道自己可能不該應徵，我最後還是投了履歷。」 繼續閱讀 以為每天都在穿高跟鞋拍大片？其實更多時候是在奔波、救場與咖啡續命日常 嚴格來說我還沒滿30歲，目前是29歲，但我真的無力再為了所謂的「熱情」去接受低薪了。我沒辦法再面不改色地說「寫作是我的夢想與一生摯愛」，然後指望大家認同地點點頭。這處境確實挺尷尬的：要說我是職場新秀，年紀似乎大了點；但在資深媒體人眼中，我又菜得可以。明年六月，各種30歲以下菁英榜」的大門就會徹底向我關上。...

Earlier this week, the internet exploded with news that Worth a Journey, an international travel magazine, had ranked the Bihar Museum ninth on its list of the World’s 100 Best Museums 2026, placing it ahead of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. That, of course, became the recurring headline that almost every publication ran with. But there’s so much more to the Bihar Museum than the fact that it overtook one of the world’s most famous museums.