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…
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When the #MeToo movement hit India a year ago, there was such an outpouring of rage; all that misplaced shame, feeling of vicimisation and helplessness that women had bottled up…
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The British TV series, Fleabag, swept some major awards at the Emmys this year—the show about a thirty-something woman called Fleabag, written and played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, chronicles the emotional and…