Search Result

Search Result
Bollywood

Need To Debunk Stereotypes Around Female Directors: Freida Pinto

India-born internationally-acclaimed actress Freida Pinto, who witnessed stardom with "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2008, wants to encourage women-driven projects through her ba...

Read More
Gender

On The Road With Bangladesh's Only Female Rickshaw Puller

Bangladesh’s only known woman rickshaw puller, Mosammat Jasmine, may be a feminist icon but to the passengers she cycles around the streets of Chittagong, she is know...

Read More
Alternative Entertainment

From a Village in Kutch, Pabiben Rabari Created a Global Brand to Empower Local Female Artisans

Kutch is celebrated for its art, crafts, music, dance, and people. Smt. Pabiben Rabari, founder of Pabiben.com, one of the first Women Artisan enterprises, and based in Bha...

Read More
Bollywood

Bollywood Bats For Clean India!

While films are now addressing serious social issues, it is overwhelming to see Bollywood celebrities taking charge offscreen as well. Doing their bit to spread awareness o...

Read More
TV

Wanted: Content For Change

Back in the 1990s, I was at a lesser known Irani bakery in Pune; other than the famous Shrewsbury biscuits, this one was also famous for bread rolls. My aunt made several v...

Read More
Bollywood

7 Bollywood Biopics That Prove Women Can Do Anything

There are rarely any emotions or any roles that women fail to deliver with aplomb unparalleled. From being demure to being a fighter to being poetic to being a romantic to ...

Read More
Health

4 of 5 Sterilised Women Have 3 Or More Kids, Suggests Survey

Even as female sterilisation continues to be the most common contraceptive method used in India, it has failed to address the problem of population control. Almost four out...

Read More
Alternative Entertainment

The Gender Imbalance In Art Cannot Be Glossed Over

The systemic prejudicial gender imbalance of male/female artists perpetuated in both public and private galleries (The art gap, G2, 7 February) could be remedied. Publicly ...

Read More
Alternative Entertainment

India’s Skater Girls Take Centre Stage In Wild Beasts’ New Music Video

If you’ve been paying attention it will come as no surprise to know that India has one of the fastest growing skater communities in the world and at the head of that ...

Read More
Sustainable Development

You’re Looking At The World’s First Artificial Honeybee

Tiny drones may help pollinate crops when dwindling honeybees aren’t enough. In a honeybee colony, normally it's the female worker bees that go out, gather pollen, an...

Read More