Guess what happened on the 4th day in the 8th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai

Mumbai, September 21, 2017:  The fourth-day of the Mega Jagran Film Festival saw faces like Pankaj Tripathi, Saurabh Shukla, Tina Kaur, Jeentendra Shi...

Filmic Cultural Excitement continues at 8th Jagran Film Festival

Mumbai, September 20, 2017: The third day of the Jagran Film Festival saw Zeenat Aman, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Anant Mahadevan, Ballu Saluja, Barry John, Ri...

Veteran Cinematographer Pravin Bhatt to be honoured at the 8th Jagran Film Festival

Mumbai, September 19, 2017: India’s BIG Travelling Film Festival, the Jagran Film Festival that toured 16 cities, today, began its seven-days journey...

Writers of Colour

Women, as a collective, have always faced discrimination through the ages, and women of colour even more so as their stories get subsumed within the larger narratives of wh...

The Laws and the Loopholes

A new video by YouTube channel Vitamin Stree talks about how India co...

No more ‘talaq, talaq, talaq’!

The Supreme Court on 22nd August 2017 struck down the Muslim practice of triple talaq, which allows men to instantly divorce their wives, as unconstitutional.

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All-Women TV Channel Zan TV Makes Waves in Afghanistan

Zan TV, an all-women TV channel has been taking the Afghani media by storm. The first TV station to be made for, and run entirely by women, it consists of a team of 50 wome...

I Felt Like One Of My Father's Songbirds, Let Out Of Its Cage': Driving As A Woman In Saudi Arabia

It began as a protest and became a national talking point. A women’s rights activist reveals what happened when she filmed herself behind the wheel In 2011, as the Ar...

How A Growing Number Of Muslim Cleric Women Are Challenging Traditional Narratives

Recent terrorist attacks such as the one in London inevitably lead to coverage of Islamist ideology, Muslim culture and Muslim women’s rights. What is often missing, ...