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Today, top actresses post photos on themselves in bikinis on social media. But there was a time when an actress who showed skin was a vamp or a sex symbol.…

Stumbled upon a biopic—unauthorized though it was—of J.K.Rowling, who is undoubtedly a publishing sensation, the likes of which appears on the horizon like a rare comet maybe once in a…

During the ongoing pandemic, problems of the elderly came into sharper focus. In modern society, ageing is not a gentle easing into retirement and a peaceful rocking chair existence, surrounded…

A young woman is being constantly stalked online and fears the chime of a message on her phone or laptop; the man eventually reaches her home, and leaves a package…

Some years ago, when new medical technology, like amniocentesis and ultrasound– meant to help pregnant women by spotting possible birth defects, was used to determine the gender of the foetus and…

A documentary by Pankaj Rishi Kumar, called Janani’s Juliet won the best film and best director award at the South Asian Short Film Festival, recently, after winning acclaim and other awards…

Whenever a film, book, or show comes up about the women’s liberation movement, Gloria Steinem invariably makes an appearance, either as herself, or an actress playing her. So it was…

If asked who was the first judge of the Indian Supreme Court, most would have to strain to remember, or would have to look it up, but many more would…

A new book, Blue Ticket, by Sophie MacKintosh is a dystopian novel about women, which follows her Booker longlisted 2019 book, The Water Cure, set in a bleak world where masculinity…

There is something delightfully subversive about the name Churails that a group of four women—a lawyer, a wedding planner, a boxer and a murderer—give to their vigilante group.  “Mard ko Dard…