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Dhurandhar and its sequel, releasing tomorrow, stretches across two parts with a combined runtime pushing nearly eight hours, but the audience is here...
The expectation that every Indian celebrity must behave like Meryl Streep or Leonardo DiCaprio is misplaced. This is not Hollywood.
More and more of us want to hear what the Middle Eastern comics are saying. They are translating the war for the world.
The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'
The irony of the Amanpour moment was that while Rubin was defending her work, the public conversation also shifted to their relationship.
Rakhi Sawant's latest comments target Jaya Bachchan as the lesser of the two in the infamous unresolved love triangle between Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya,...
Deepak Chopra’s line about 'cute girls' is not an accidental lapse of judgement. It fits the register of a world in which influence is lubricated by...
The tension between what an art piece asks for and what our pace allows became even more visible at Breathe by Teja Gavankar.
My name always arrived before I did, and it arrived carrying questions, which, over time, began to feel like small border checks.
What links ‘Surfacing’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘The Robber Bride’ is not a neat feminist argument so much as a shared attentiveness to survival.
Much of the praise has focused on the ‘protective’ men in the crowd. It recentres male authority over public space. Do women require guardianship...
The assumption is simple: A Hindu woman’s proximity to a Muslim man is never neutral. It always requires scrutiny, explanation, and, if necessary,...
Zarna Garg's Trump remark exposed what her jokes were already implying—gratitude is survival.
We don’t have to erase Chomsky’s contributions, but we must refine how we listen.
India is horrified by Poonam’s actions. But it should also do what it rarely does — examine the mirror it keeps holding up to its women.
The wealthy float above the crisis—insulated in air-purified cars, weekend getaways at farmhouses, and vacations timed perfectly to coincide with...
Somewhere along the way, play became a scheduled activity instead of something that just happened. It became a slot you could miss, a plan you had to...
The Ramayana entering politics is not the collapse of reason alone; sometimes it is also the search for continuity in a decade that has moved faster...
The US has approved a new pill for menopause symptoms and rolled back the 'black box' warnings that kept women away from HRT. But the long delay...
The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.
The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.