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…
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In cities, education for girls and a certain amount of freedom is taken for granted, but go out into the Indian mofussil, and the story is very different– if girls…
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There was a startling photograph seen a few days back, of female scientists sticking on mustaches and thick beards on their faces, in a symbolic gesture to be taken as…
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A one-woman stage presentation, Cast Off All Shame, by Ulka Mayur (in picture above), brought into focus the women Bhakti poets of India, who predated the feminist movement—as we know it…
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If, a few years ago, somebody had suggested that 007 should be a woman, they would have been laughed off the studio lot. However, today, a production company sees the…
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The issue of sexual harassment in not confined to North India, but going by news reports coming out regularly, it is not for nothing that Delhi is known as the…