Radhika Bhirani (HINDUSTAN TIMES; May 2, 2020)

Not finding solitude “uncomfortable” at all, Sobhita Dhulipala adds that social media doesn’t take up more than 30 minutes of her day. However, it raked up a squabble over pictures that the actor claimed were part of a self-styled and self-timed photoshoot for a magazine. There were counter claims as pictures of a man clicking her photographs began floating on the Internet, leading Dhulipala to issue a statement about standing by her stance.

It is the “pleasure of impulsiveness”, she explains, which drew her to the “idea of representing parts of who I am in my daily routines through my own means”. The Made In Heaven actor found it “amusing how urgently many jumped at the chance to bring another person down”. “It reveals their feelings of inadequacy,” Dhulipala says.

Truth, in her opinion, is “absolute”. She adds, “Meme pages manipulating it by using only one part of the narrative so as to sensationalise it, is silly. I’m lucky to have learnt not to sweat the small stuff, there are bigger issues out there that need actual discussion!”

Is she going to be more conscious about what she posts now? “Hell no,” exclaims the 27-year-old, who isn’t looking at this “gap as a void to fill things in but as an opportunity to reflect upon who we are in the grander scheme of things”.