Race Against Time: Manoj Bajpayee and Neena Gupta have both built reputations as formidable actors, and the very fact that they are in the cast of Rensil D’Silva’s Dial 100, makes the …

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 …

Surf’s Up: Malibu, a city in California, is known for its gorgeous beaches, celebrity homes, surfing fans, proximity to Hollywood… and fires. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel Malibu Rising set mostly in the …

Baby Blues: There is a worrisome trend, not just in India but around the world, that has conservatives trying to roll back women’s rights—what they wear, who they marry, how …

Not A Laugh In Sight: As far as his Hindi movies are concerned, Priyadarshan has missed the target more often than he has hit it. He mostly remakes Malayalam films, many …

Boxing Storm: The idea for the story of Toofaan is credited to co-producer and lead actor Farhan Akhtar, not even a nod to Hollywood’s boxing saga Rocky (1976). Rakysh Omprakash …

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, …

The Angel Wore Hermes: Elin Hilderbrand has got her beach read template down flat—scenic locations of Nantucket that she describes vividly, romance, suspense, garnished with a dash of sex. Her …

As a tribute to Dilip Kumar, revisiting one of his ‘Tragedy King’ hits, Jogan (1950), in which, like in many other films, he fell in love with an unattainable woman. …

  At some point in the march of the women’s movement, the word ‘housewife’ became politically incorrect and was replaced by ‘homemaker’. Women who did not have careers, or rather, …