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…
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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…