Shilpa's Oscar-winning show

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"She won, she won! Can you believe it, she actually won," I was trying to adjust myself to the cold comfort of the office cab at 6:30 am on a foggy Monday morning, when what read like an encrypted message beeped on my screen. The message was sent by a spaced-out journalist friend on the entertainment beat, stationed permanently on the graveyard shift since her journalism debut. Now, random messages at ungodly hours on a Monday morning do not amuse me. So I promptly messaged her back asking who the "she" and "it" in question were, half expecting her to text me back about Deepa Mehta being declared an early Oscar winner. Huh! Obviously, I had been too clued out over the extended weekend to understand that the world - at least the sizeable Indian chunk of it - had been waiting with bated breath to....