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...

How Vice’s Feminist Channel ‘Broadly’ Plans To Get Women Right

“TO BE HONEST,” Tracie Egan Morrissey tells me. “I actually don’t really care what men think or how they feel.”

It’s about ten m...

Can Gender Equality Reduce Suicides In India?

New Delhi: Offering more reasons for men to share power with women, psychiatrists have said that gender equality can prevent many men from taking their own lives. Of the 15...

Females In Leading Roles Are Dominating The Box Office.

FEMALE led films are dominating the Australian box office, accounting for more than half of the highest grossing films so far this year.
According to Motion Pictu...

How Two Badass Actresses Are Making Hollywood Better For Women.

It seems like every single day brings with it another depressing statistic about women in film. Like how out of the top grossing 600 films between 2007-2013, only 1.9 perce...

The All-Empowered Bollywood Woman.

The last decade in Bollywood has seen a surge in female-oriented films and characters that show women in different lights and moods. What defines a great heroine? She doesn...

An Elite Cafeteria Or A Canteen For Everyone?

June 30, 2015, 9.15 pm

I heaved a sigh of relief as I put down my purse, lunchbox, umbrella and some vegetables I ...