The recent web series, Jubilee, about the early years of Hindi cinema, has suddenly created an interest in Devika Rani and Himansu Rai, founders of the legendary Bombay Talkies. The show…
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These days when urban women go about dressed in revealing outfits and seldom attract a second look, it was the death of designer Mary Quant recently that reminded people of…
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Marie Curie – the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two — is undoubtedly the best known female scientist in a field that…
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“The problem with being a wife is being a wife,” writes Carmela Ciuraru in the introduction of her painstakingly researched and very readable book, Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages,…
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When it comes to the misfortunes of others, we have very short memories. The cases of atrocities against women do not even get adequate media coverage—it’s like everybody wakes up…
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As the Awards season in the US and UK begins to lead up to the biggest show in the movie industry—the Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars–two actresses who…
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February 11 was the 60th death anniversary of Sylvia Plath, one of the most admired and influential poets of the 20th century, who, through her poems, short stories and sole novel, The Bell…
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On the current New York Times best sellers list is a book by Tori Dunlap titled Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love. It has…
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The brouhaha over the colour of the bikini worn in a song from an upcoming film, misses the more important issue of the way a woman is made to look…
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December 16 happens to be the birth anniversary of Jane Austen, one of the most famous writers of her time. She died at the age of 41, leaving six full-length…