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Behind The Ghunghat

Is it possible to have a conversation around Gender and Sexuality vis-à-vis television content? I would say NO! Indian television is still in its infancy regards cre...

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Bollywood

Anushka On Gender Discrimination: An Actor Gets A Better Hotel Room Than An Actress.

Gender discrimination has existed in our society for quite some time now but there are rarely people who speak about it. Bollywood has also been a great victim of gender di...

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Retroscope

The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...

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Bollywood

10 Bollywood Celebrities With Social Causes

Ours is a country that lives on movies. Bollywood actors today have the entire country following their every move closely. With that kind of fan following and power, comes ...

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Thought Factory

Top 5 New Media/Web Platforms For Change

I recently read an article by Sean Parker, the founder president of Facebook and the man behind the revolutionary Napster,that took the music world by storm, speaking about...

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Bollywood

Soha Ali, Rituparna Walk For Street Children Charity.

As Bollywood star Soha Ali Khan joined the Kolkata celebrity brigade to sashay down the ramp in chunky jewellery and gorgeous traditional Indian outfits like saree on a rai...

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TV

BREAKING NEWS, VARIETY AT PRIME TIME

I recently caught a glimpse of stories which could well be part of Code Red, Savdhaan India and many such shows which highlight violence against children. The Culture Beat ...

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Thought Factory

TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

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Bollywood

10 Bollywood celebrities with social causes

Ours is a country that lives on movies. Bollywood actors today have the entire country following their every move closely. With that kind of fan following and power, comes ...

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TV

TELEVISION’S CULTURE POTS

When German friends first visited Bombay, they were blown away by the multiple ethnic groups on the streets. They had just visited the Rajabai Clock Tower and seen statues ...

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