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Award-winning film critic and author Shoma A. Chatterji examines the ‘other’ in her two recent books with an insightful look at the world of Indian cinema. In a tete-a-tete with Ranjita Biswas

Ratna Pathak Shah talks about her childhood when she was reluctant to act, the relationship between the government and art, her body of work after she crossed her 40s and the issue of pay parity.

Researchers try to quantify just how severe the stranglehold of patriarchy on Hindi cinema is.

Researchers try to quantify just how severe the stranglehold of patriarchy on Hindi cinema is.

Researchers try to quantify just how severe the stranglehold of patriarchy on Hindi cinema is.

Alankrita Shrivastava, acclaimed director of 'Lipstick Under my Burkha' and 'Bombay Begums', speaks on what draws viewers to theatres, sometimes in spite of the expenses.

Call My Agent: Bollywood is currently streaming on Netflix.

Eating Uncomfortable Truths The Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen (2021) available on Neestream, firmly brings the question of women in popular culture once again. The kitchen and by extension food in this film, is a metaphor for all that’s wrong with the sexual division of labour. It confronts us with the relevance of feminism, much against the generation’s willingness to shun the label ‘feminist’. In the classroom I encounter many statements that begin with ‘I’m not a femi...

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Top 20 stories that will make us believe that we are greater than the sum of our challenges Your New Year resolutions may not last but heart-warming stories do. Here is heading towards 2021 with inspirational stories of women who fought the odds and emerged winners. 0 claps Share on Everybody is a storyteller and we ceaselessly tell and seek stories – over conversations, in our chats and expressions through emojis, long video calls while catching up with friends, or brief exchanges with neig...