Ayesha Takia has become a mirror. When popular media holds up her latest photo, the horror they claim to see is not in her eyes—it is in our own reflection. Until the algorithm stops rewarding cruelty, every female celebrity who dares to stop acting will face the same fate: to be erased as an artist and remembered only as a cautionary jpeg. The only way to win this game is to stop looking. But sadly, for a clickbait-driven media, the looking is the only thing that sells.
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