Hollywood’s Glass Ceiling yet to be Broken

With an upsurge in women demanding to be taken more seriously, one would expect the percentage of films starring women as leads to go up. But s...

The Return of the Milk Bottles

1879: Milk is sold in glass bottles for the first time in the United States. It's a clear improvement in hygiene and convenience.

Gutsy Women in Bollywood are Changing People’s Outlook

Women in Bollywood are game changers in reel and real life both. They are an inspiration to every other woman out there. Not only do they ig...

And finally, a much-needed Superhero – PadMan

“Creating one million livelihoods for poor women and making India a 100% sanitary napkin using country”, that’s the vision of Arunachalam Murga...

Out of Africa

In 1998, Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith, began the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels set in Botswana, featuring the “traditionally...

Stupid Man, Smart Phone: Adapt, Fit, Survive.

The next time you get slammed for facebooking incessantly or for being a slave to the gram, snap them with the ‘fam is life’ line. How? The Stupid Man, Smart Ph...

Apocalypse Now? ... Or Never!

“The time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now. You can make history or be vilified by it.” - Leonardo Di Caprio

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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...

Monsoon Deluge: Between Predictions And Advisories

The 29th of August saw Mumbai fall victim to a cloudburst, and, as the city went under, drowning in amassed water, one paused to think of the reason as to why our cities ke...