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Will Bollywood open up about #MeToo?

Let's not deny the fact that there are Harvey Weinsteins in Bollywood too. Ever since the Harvey Weinstein scandal came to light about 2 months ago, sexual harassment has b...

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Human Rights

Feminism and High Art

In London Contemporary Music Festival this year, among other things, one can take the chance to experience a fairly different sort of music- background music from a pornogr...

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Alternative Entertainment

Waiting for the Ban on Banning of Banning!

While the intentions of outright banning books, art, music, symbols, statues, or behaviour are usually always good—desires to end raci...

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Sweekar: The Rainbow Parents’ of LGBTQ Children form a Support Group in Mumbai

The second meeting of the Parents Support Group was held recently in Mumbai with even greater participation of parents of LGBTQ children. The daylong meeting was attended b...

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Human Rights

Of Queer Crooners

Every artistic creation is always a reaction to, and a direct product of the time it is made in; simultaneously being a comment on, and of the era. The same is true for the...

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Generation Z: Don't genders other than homosexuality and heterosexuality exist?

There has been a generational shift in sexuality, shows research carried out by polling company Ipsos Mori for the BBC. As confusing as this might sound to some - and at ti...

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Festivals

The Best of the Cult Films at the Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) showcased some of the most anticipated films set to be released over the coming months. Many of those films were barely famous du...

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Gender

Writers of Colour

Women, as a collective, have always faced discrimination through the ages, and women of colour even more so as their stories get subsumed within the larger narratives of wh...

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Gender

Laughter in Lahore

Despite its image as a repressed nation torn by turmoil, Pakistan's alternative art movement is slowly making heads turn. Auratnaak, an all-women group of comedy a...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Stage and the Stree

Theatre has been one of the longest-practiced forms of art in India- from age-old bards, to soliloquizing protagonists, to dance-dramas, it has always been a crucial part o...

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