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There Is A Life Beyond Cancer: Manisha

Her most memorable and strong female characters in Bombay, Dil Se, and Khamoshi were nearly from two decades back, but real-life heroine Manisha Koirala, who survived cance...

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9 Of The Strongest Women Characters That Bollywood Has Produced!

In a patriarchal society as ours and a largely male-dominated industry as Bollywood, rarely do you find some great roles written for women. And respect for the ladies? Even...

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Sonam Kapoor: Girl Power Will Be Back.

Sonam Kapoor is making headlines these days owing to her latest movie 'Prem Ratan Dhan Payo', where she is paired up with super star Salman Khan. While the actress is quite...

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Is Indian Cinema Finally Empowering Its Female Characters?

What is it about women and weapons that fascinate us? Why is it that the idea of an empowered woman is tied to that of her wielding a destructive object or super power? Eve...

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Disney TV Show to Inspire Young Girls to Pursue a Career in Science

Disney, along with Google and Nasa, is working on a new TV show that will inspire young girls to pursue a career in science and technology. According to a Washington Post r...

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Zindagi TV, We Never Want To Watch These Regressive Plotlines Again

Now that our remotes are stuck on Zindagi TV, watching Pakistani ‘draame’, let’s be clear: many of them are as regressive as their Indian counterparts. Th...

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SAAS BAHU AND TRADITION

??India lives in her villages,? is a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. ?This isn't the exact quote, though. Gandhiji actually wrote, ?India is not Calcutta and Bombay. In...

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Geena Davis Warns 700 Years Needed To Reach Gender Parity In Kids? Media

Actress Geena Davis last week told a standing-room only event on gender and the media at the United Nations that the paucity of female characters in entertainment media for...

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‘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...

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Girl Power! Keira Knightley Sounds Off On Strong Female Characters

Keira Knightley may be every fashion designer’s dream, but she isn’t just a pretty face. Like her fellow Brit, Emma Watson, Knightley is for girl power on the s...

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