Deconstructing The Deplorable Misrepresentation of Women in Indian Media

It is the limited roles women play within our media that are most keenly responsible for perpetuating old stereotypes, and moulding the idea of what women should be to a fe...

‘Homeland’ Director: “What Happens to All These Women After They Direct Their First Film?”

For the past year, I have been the director/executive producer of Homeland season four on Showtime, which features one of television’s most complicated and compelling...

Gender inequality undermining India’s progress: report

Deep-rooted gender inequalities continue to undermine India’s potential to translate economic growth into inclusive development, according to a government report whic...

Can TV Save India?

But in the 1990s, cable television arrived and private channels like Star Plus and Zee TV popped up — and quickly started catering to the lowest common denominator. T...

PM?s climate change council recast

The Union government reconstituted the Prime Minister?s Council on Climate Change on Wednesday to coordinate the National Action Plan for Assessment, Adaptation and Mitigat...

Candid Conversations

‘Everyone you meet has something to teach you’, goes a saying.

Travelling multiple modes of transport on a regular basis allows for sharing space with a...

If I Become Your Fan Mr. Modi, Will You Lose Popularity?

Because that is how it’s been in all my years. I have always been in support of those leaders who are more unpopular in India than their counterparts who have thrived...

Of Mirth And Soaps

There was this scene in Thakan, last week, where the newly married bride Sadaf goes into the kitchen to make tea. Foxed by an unfamiliar kitchen in the lavish house of her ...

To improve sex ratio, Khap ends 500-yr-old ritual in 5 Jat villages

In Dhariwal gotra-dominated Jaurasi-Fatehpur villages of Mewat, the Jat Khap Panchayat has abandoned a 500-year-old practice of ‘pagribandi’ (brotherhood) with ...