A Few Good Men

Some years ago Rachna Bisht Rawat wrote a book called The Brave, about the 21 men from the armed forces, who were awarded the highest military honour, the Paramveer Chakra....

Shabana: Long Way From Being Perfect, But A Start Has Been Made

Veteran actor Shabana Azmi is quite impressed with the kind of roles that female actors are portraying in films these days. She says, in the past, heroines were merely addi...

MTV: Bold, Sensitive

In 1995, Ashish Balram Nagpal, an art connoisseur, made a film called Adha Adhura which was way too progressive. In the film, Ashish Balram Nagpal, a billionaire businessma...

12-Year-Old Girl Wants Northeast India’s History To Be Included In Our Textbooks

While the Indian government continues to force nationalistic pride upon its citizens in the hopes of making us all ’respect’ and ‘admire’ this glori...

Enough We Will Not Be Silent Anymore

The Cinthol ad follows Indian sportswomen who have braved odds and ridicule to simply follow their hearts and make a new destiny. The ad captures the new narrative about wo...

Femme Very Fatale

There have been dangerous women in popular fiction, a few serial killers too, but Jodie Danforth is in a class apart. It is a generalisation, perhaps unfair, that women are...

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

Flowing With Rashmi: An Interview With The Director Of The FLO Film Festival

Rashmi Lamba is the Festival Director at the FLO Film Festival, a festival geared towards the empowerment of women. The festival explores positive portrayals of women and g...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...