The recently released film, Thappad by Anubhav Sinha, has opened up a much-needed discussion on domestic violence. Thappad (Slap) is about Amrita (played by Taapsee Pannu), who files for divorce when…
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At the recently awarded Oscars, Renee Zellweger won Best Actress for the film Judy, in which he played, to perfection, the role of Hollywood diva Judy Garland. From all accounts, Judy Garland was a successful singer,…
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The introduction, Hardit Kaur Gill, daughter of General Gill, brings to mind a woman brought up in the rarefied, strictly hierarchical world of army cantonments; probably unable to make friends…
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In 1980, a film was released, called 9 to 5, a comedy set in an office, managed by an obnoxious and sexist boss. This was a few years after the…
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Two recent novels, led to the discovery of a remarkable initiative in the early twentieth century, in Roosevelt-era America–the Works Progress Administration’s Pack Horse Library Project. Best-selling author Jojo Moyes’s…
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It’s the end of the year and time to check on the progress made by women in the Hindi film industry—have they inched forward at all? Yes, if the graph…
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As the horrific rape-murder of Priyanka Reddy causes country-wide outrage, baffled attempts to understand what turns young men into savages and knee-jerk ideas about women’s safety come up, which are…
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A new play Zoon: Noor Kashmir Ka, by award-winning playwright-director Purva Naresh, connects the story of Kashmir’s legendary poetess Zoon or Habba Khatoon, with conditions in Kashmir today. There have…
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Sona Mohapatra was furious because she found that female singers were not being invited to perform at music festivals, the excuse being there aren’t any. She created the hashtag #IExist…
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Watching a film, The Souvenir, at the MAMI Film Festival, made by a female director, Joanna Hogg, which was about a woman unable to get out of a toxic relationship with a…