While celebrating women achievers and leaders, we sometimes overlook some of the pioneering women in our own city. In just the areas of Girgaon and Gamdevi in Mumbai, there was …
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Back in 1962, KA Abbas made a film called Gyarah Hazaar Ladkian about the problems of working women in Mumbai. The leading lady is in the dock for murder, and when …
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Back in 411 BC, the Greek poet and playwright, Aristophenes, wrote Lysistrata, a comedy about a woman who rallies others in a unique plan to end the Peloponnesian War between Athens …
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A new documentary, Riefenstahl, by Andres Veiel, about the controversial German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, once again raises questions about an artist’s conscience. Can a filmmaker make beautiful and powerful propaganda films …
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Women Of Today: There has been a social media gripe going on about the actresses who shared the national award for their performances this year—Nithya Menen for Thiruchitrambalam (Tamil) and Manasi Parekh for Kutch Express (Gujarati). …
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How do Muslim women have their voices heard in a “white supremacist, imperialist, capitalist, heteropatriarchy?” You can’t make up such a line, but Nida Manzoor has done so, to find …
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These days, when it has become acceptable to air out things that were once considered private or taboo, then it is also about time to bring menopause out of the …
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Eve Ensler now calls herself V, for reasons she explains in her book, Reckoning, which is a collection of her writings and lectures over all the years she has been …
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The Girls Are Not Alright Back in 1950, V Shantaram had made a film called Dahej, in which a young woman is harassed and tortured for dowry. Over the years, …
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There is a precious collection of essays out, titled 50 Years Of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited A Revolution. It is what it says it is, …