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.…
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The term ‘male gaze’ was coined by Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema—which, to put it simply, meant that visual media are created for a heterosexual male’s point…
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In a currently popular web series, Panchayat, set in a village in Uttar Pradesh, the Pradhan of the gram panchayat is Manju Devi (played by Neena Gupta), but the actual work is…
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Women have accomplished much, though there are still some major battles being fought over gender parity at work, and the resistance to sexual harassment is gathering strength. However, there are…