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,…
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Two recent screen projects—Charlie Chopra And The Mystery Of Solang Valley in India and A Haunting In Venice in the UK—point to the continuing popularity of Agatha Christie, nearly half…
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Just how far the influence of a designer goes can be gauged by how quickly and for how long their products make it to the market in fakes. Today, a…