The term ‘male gaze’ was coined by Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema—which, to put it simply, meant that visual media are created for a heterosexual male’s point…

Mystery Of The Missing Girls: The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James moves between dual time frames as two intrepid young women set out find out just what is going…

Once Upon A Time In Mumbai:   The textile mills strike in Mumbai, that led to a lockout and mass unemployment in the early eighties, had a long term impact…

The Mark Of  Classic: It’s 41 years since the release of  the original Golmaal (1979), Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s no-frills comedy, that remains a Bollywood classic. Starring Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Dina Pathak,…

The Count Of Hotel Metropol: If a book remains on the bestseller charts for so long, it demands to be read. And after completing Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow…

 In a currently popular web series, Panchayat,  set in a village in Uttar Pradesh, the Pradhan of the gram panchayat is Manju Devi (played by Neena Gupta), but the actual work is…

Women have accomplished much, though there are still some major battles being fought over gender parity at work, and the resistance to sexual harassment is gathering strength. However, there are…

Dead Man Walking: James McBride’s new novel, Deacon King Kong, set in a crumbling Brooklyn housing project in the late sixties, wraps up the history of immigrant and black lives…

She Laughs! As a tribute to Nimmi who passed away on March 25, a look at one of her last films– a rare comedy in a career packed with tragic…

Butter Fingers: After a few missteps Netflix is inching towards getting its act together as far as original movie content for India goes. The latest, Maska, gets some things right,…