Aruna Raje Patil: Committed To Feminism

Aruna Raje Patil passed out of FTII with a gold medal in 1969 becoming the first trained woman technician in the industry.
At the beginning of her career Aruna Raje w...

Shonda Rhimes: Never Afraid To Tell Abortion Stories

Shonda Rhimes isn't a doctor. She doesn't even play one on TV (though, at this point, she probably knows more about obscure diseases than your internist). But Rhimes, who h...

Three Things I’ve Learned About The Real Meaning Of Gender Equality

When I started the Red Elephant Foundation in 2013, six months after I turned 25, I was still wet behind the ears about gender equality. Growing up in Chennai, India I live...

Fishing For Stories Of The Earth

Four years ago, Scottish geologist Iain Stewart made his first ever visit to Kerala along with a BBC crew in search of karimeen, the backwater fish that’s also a favo...

I Am Transgender. And I Oppose Safe Schools

It has a particular significance for me because on Australia Day 2012, both Ricky Ponting and I were awarded the Order of Australia.It should have been the proudest day of ...

True Review Movie - Hindi - Mastizaade

Cast: Sunny Leone, Tusshar Kapoor, Vir Das, Suresh Menon, Shaad Randhawa

Direction: Milap Zaveri

Produced: Pritish Nandy, Rangita Pritish Nandy

Writ...

Here’s How To Not Get Pulled Up Like ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ For ‘Denigrating’ Women On Indian TV

Sex is to Indian television, what nuclear warheads are to life on earth. And then it so happened that Grey’s Anatomy dared to showcase an episode on Star Wo...

Female Directors, Writers From Chicago Area Weigh In On Sexism In Hollywood

Female writers, actors and directors, including some from the Chicago area, offered their experiences and thoughts on why they have been shut out from opportunities in...

The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...