In his two period novels, which will hopefully expand into a long-running series, Vaseem Khan has created a wonderful character, Persis Wadia, the first female police officer in newly independent…
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When the world is tilting alarmingly towards right wing or conservatism, the first casualty is women’s rights—in particular, right to reproduction, right to own their sexuality and their bodies. There is quick condemnation of…
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Nearly a quarter of a century after her untimely death in a car crash, the interest in Princess Diana continues unabated. After dozens of books, magazine articles, academic essays, documentaries, conspiracy theories,…
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Seventy years ago, in October 1951, the first episode of a television show was broadcast, that changed the way TV comedy was written, produced, shot and consumed. I Love Lucy, which…
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This exchange really took place. At a dinner in the Beverley Hills home of Benedict Bogeaus, junkyard dealer turned movie producer, he declared to his showbiz guests, “We have a woman…
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This is a moment to remember! A prince expresses his love to a commoner and proposes marriage, and she turns him down. She wants to make her own place in…
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The world is watching in horror as the Taliban take over Afghanistan once again — the deaths, the exodus and worst of all, the tragic fact that women will be…
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Before the corona virus sent the world reeling, Christina Sweeney-Baird had written a somewhat prescient book about a similarly vicious virus let loose across the globe, the difference being that…
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Imagine a scenario in an Indian police station, where a young woman has gone to report a rape. The first thing she will go through is a visual sweep of…
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More often than not, when cases of workplace sexual harassment make it to the news, they are from high-profile professions like films, fashion or media. But women in ordinary jobs,…