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AGEISM, STEREOTYPING AND PAY DISPARITY IN BOLLYWOOD

While Bollywood, masters of tokenism, has occasionally tried to counter ageism and stereotyping, it has mainly played safe, distancing itself w...

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My Mother’s Girlfriend Wins Big!

Marathi film ‘My Mother’s Girlfriend’ wins the Best Short Film award at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival...

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Simply a storyteller: Mitra Phukan

It is my privilege to introduce, to those among you, who don’t know her, Mitra Phukan - a writer, author and thought leader - writes Read More

Avoidable: The 'ageism' bias

With all that is being written in the media these days about ageism, I should not (actually could not) have done all that I did over the years,...

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Two is Company

There has been, after Stieg Larsson’s ‘Girl’ books, a proliferation of kickass heroines. Crime fiction was never short of fem...

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Tribeca: 72-Year-Old Neurologist-Turned-Filmmaker For Festival’s Most Unique Movie

In an industry that caters to youth and is thought to be rampant with ageism, there is some encouraging news coming out of the Tribeca Film Festival tonight. It is the prem...

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After Retirement, Esther Ritz Became A Full-Time Painter At 55 And Never Looked Back

The art world has an alluring, if somewhat illusory, exterior. It gives off the impression of being progressive, fluid, experimental — a space for outsiders of all ki...

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It's Time For Hollywood Ageism To Die, And Change Needs To Come From The Top

Marta Kauffman was at lunch with the head of Skydance Productions when she found out that Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin were interested in working in television. She thought t...

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