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Beyond Pink and Blue!

When a baby is born, the obstetrician announces “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl.” As babies, children learn to categorize everyone as eithe...

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TV

True Review Television-This Week: Bald, Bold Performances

When film actresses shave off their tresses, it is for just for a short while, as the film is being shot. But when a television actress has her locks shorn off for a daily ...

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TV

True Review-Television: This Week – Thrills Abhi Baki Hai

Life OK’s Zindagi Abhi Baaki Hai Mere Ghost is in keeping with the channel’s credo of entertainment with a difference. Tagged as a Horror Comedy, it has a good ...

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Gender

Yes, Even Doctor Barbie Sends Girls the Wrong Message

The last few years have been tough ones for Barbie. Sales have declined significantly, dropping 16 percent in 2014 alone. In an effort to jumpstart the sagging brand, Matte...

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Gender

Changing Gender Roles Across Professions In India

In Fe-mail 2, Egyptian author Amy Mowaki adds her voice to the many who have spoken of and against gender disparity, when she writes “…if I have a daughter I w...

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Hollywood

The Female Force Awakens as Star Wars Has Four Strong Women Roles

The Bechdel Test is a far from perfect measurement of the accuracy and integrity of gender portrayal, as Alison Bechdel herself has admitted, but it’s one that has fi...

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Gender

If You Can See It, You Can Be It

‘If you see it, you can be it’ could have been the unofficial slogan of the International Development Cooperation meeting on Gender and Media, where I was invit...

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Trending

Power Of Nutrition: The $1 Billion Startup

Nutrition has a color. Alethea Dopart had brand colors on her mind — “you usually see greens, yellows, sometimes orange” — as she guided me through ...

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Festivals

Variety To Honor Will Smith, Charlie Kaufman At Palm Springs Film Festival

Variety will recognize Will Smith, Charlie Kaufman and this year’s 10 Directors to Watch at the 2016Palm Springs Film Festival. In comme...

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Top 5

Behind The Ghunghat

Is it possible to have a conversation around Gender and Sexuality vis-à-vis television content? I would say NO! Indian television is still in its infancy regards cre...

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