If asked who was the first judge of the Indian Supreme Court, most would have to strain to remember, or would have to look it up, but many more would…
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A new book, Blue Ticket, by Sophie MacKintosh is a dystopian novel about women, which follows her Booker longlisted 2019 book, The Water Cure, set in a bleak world where masculinity…
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There is something delightfully subversive about the name Churails that a group of four women—a lawyer, a wedding planner, a boxer and a murderer—give to their vigilante group. “Mard ko Dard…
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Another Independence Day rolled around, with all the speeches, flag hoisting ceremonies, blaring of patriotic songs, tributes to Gandhi, Nehru, Tilak, Netaji, Sardar and maybe Bhagat Singh. But it would…
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The web series Indian Matchmaking (on Netflix), is currently generating much heated debate and dozens of mocking memes. Indians are cringing at the nasty portrayal of the traditional arranged marriage and westerns are…
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The slight air of sleaze emanating from the stills and promos of the web series Rasbhari, not to mention the title itself, and then the reactions to it on social media…
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What would Hillary Rodham’s life have been like, had she not married Bill Clinton? Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel, Rodham, imagines the scenario, and it would not be a spoiler to reveal that…
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If it is possible to feel outraged over a quarter of a century after an incident made news, then watching the TV film, I Was Lorena Bobbitt brings out a kind of…
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When large chunks of the world seem to be tipping back into conservatism—if not complete right-wing lunacy, the web series, Mrs America, is like a pouring-ice-water-on-the-head kind of reminder that women are…
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As the new Sara Paretsky novel, Dead Land, is released (and immediately picked up), it leads to musings about the female detective in fiction. Paretsky created the wonderful character, V.I.…