As Independence Day approaches and recedes every year, there is always, mingled with the celebration, a twinge of what if Partition had never happened. If Muhammad Ali Jinnah is revered…
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If there had not been a spate of articles about 25 years of Sex And The City, this milestone would have just flown past unnoticed, because the show does not seem that…
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It’s a depressingly familiar story. Men in power who harass and abuse women are somehow protected by a shield of political apathy. The protest in Delhi, by wrestlers against Brij…
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As Kate Winslet stepped on stage to received the BAFTA for her performance in I Am Ruth, she said in her acceptance speech, “We want our children back.” Dominic Savage’s dark…
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When we were growing up, Enid Blyton books were very popular, mainly because they flooded the neighbourhood libraries. Also because parents approved of the harmless mystery-solving antics of the Fabulous…
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The recent web series, Jubilee, about the early years of Hindi cinema, has suddenly created an interest in Devika Rani and Himansu Rai, founders of the legendary Bombay Talkies. The show…
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These days when urban women go about dressed in revealing outfits and seldom attract a second look, it was the death of designer Mary Quant recently that reminded people of…
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Marie Curie – the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two — is undoubtedly the best known female scientist in a field that…
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“The problem with being a wife is being a wife,” writes Carmela Ciuraru in the introduction of her painstakingly researched and very readable book, Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages,…
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February 11 was the 60th death anniversary of Sylvia Plath, one of the most admired and influential poets of the 20th century, who, through her poems, short stories and sole novel, The Bell…