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Indian Women Seeking Jobs Confront Taboos and Threats

On a humid, sweaty, honking afternoon last summer, two women were making their way through the court complex in the north Indian city of Meerut, searching for the office of...

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Bollywood

Vidya Enjoys 'Superwoman' Experience On Radio.

Actress Vidya Balan, who has played an empowered woman in films like “Kahaani” and “No One Killed Jessica”, says she enjoyed the experience of voici...

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Gender

Indian Women Facing Inequality At All Stages Of Life Cycle: UN Study

A study of the United Nations released on 20 October 2015 observed that Indian women are facing inequality at all stages of life cycle-from birth to old age-and in all plac...

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Retroscope

Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

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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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Gender

Is The Indian Working Woman Living In ‘Fool’s Paradise’ Where Her Salary Is Concerned?

Around 61% working Indian women have a perception that they earn the same salary as men doing the same work. However, if we glance through the World Economic Forum data, th...

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Bollywood

Bollywood’s Women Steal Movie Limelight From Men

After decades of male domination, Bollywood has seen a recent wave of hit movies starring Indian women in tough, smart lead roles, suggesting the gender tide may finally be...

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Gender

6 Indian Women Figure In Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women List

At a time when 49% of Indian women have never accessed Internet, this comes as a gentle reminder that Indian women cannot be taken lightly. In the recent Forbes List of 100...

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Bollywood

Kalki Koechlin Speaks About Child Sexual Abuse

Kalki Koechlin, who has been in the news for the past couple of weeks due to her forthcoming film “Margerita, With a Straw” got a different kind of attention wh...

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Thought Factory

NOW ART FITS TO COLUMNS OF EXCEL SHEETS!

In the last week I happened to spend an evening with relatives who were visiting Mumbai from Jammu; my hometown and the place I took birth in. It’s a no-brainer that ...

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