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Shabana Azmi Says, Marriage Not A Disqualification In Bollywood

She has been married for over three decades to veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar and has essayed powerful roles in Bollywood in her 44-year journey. Acclaimed performer and soc...

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TV

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...

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Thought Factory

Women and Work

“Historic imbalances in power relations between men and women, exacerbated by growing inequalities within and between societies and countries, are leading to greater ...

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Festivals

A Festival Of Films For Her

The heroine’s role in India’s first ever film was not played by a woman, but a man. In Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913), the character of Quee...

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Festivals

‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ Win Award At Glasgow Film Festival

"Lipstick Under My Burkha", which was denied a release certificate by the censor board, has won the audience award at the Glasgow Film Festival. Director Alankrita Shrivast...

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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...

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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 ...

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Gender

Who’s The Boss? India’s Women Farmers Take Charge Battling Traditional Gender Roles

For Hira Kanjarya, a 17 hour day is the norm as she gets up before dawn to cook for her five children, do the washing, milk her two buffalos, and also run the family’...

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Retroscope

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Comedy, for some odd reason, has not been a favourite genre for Indian film makers. There is a marked preference for sentimental romances, love stories, family melodrama, g...

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Retroscope

MOTHERHOOD RETOLD

“I remember it being a curiously bewildering phase. A period when I was beginning to feel excluded from the mainstream activities of my family…but it took me a...

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