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Rebecca Welton, played by Hannah Waddingham in Ted Lasso, holds power without becoming a parody of it. Sharp, vain and funny, she shows those traits...
Preity Zinta’s 'Batwara 1947' experience revives an old myth: that women’s lives began and ended in the kitchen.
Women abused at CJP-led student protests. But why does the burden of purifying public language always make a stop at women's doorstep?
The original Rocky is remembered as one of cinema's great underdog stories. Yet Sylvester Stallone's struggle to make it could become just as...
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the talk of the town, and so is his Helen, Lupita Nyong'o, as armchair classicists argue that Helen of Troy was...
ISKCON has done exactly what one would expect of it. It has never hidden its commitment to vegetarian food. But a government has no business following...
Women have long been told to spot red flags before it's too late. In the age of dating apps, screenshots and public call-outs, Anurag Kashyap's Bandar...
India's adoration of the armed forces has a curious strain of moral puritanism that elevates military personnel into national icons and then resents...
Even in matters and moments of patriotism, Indians don't spare women. The instinct is older than social media. It’s older than the republic itself.
The old Virat Kohli would have attacked the contest with visible ferocity. The Kohli of today is a more complete and possibly a more dangerous...
Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then...
After her election defeat, Mamata Didi seems to be reinventing herself again. And for her first role, she has chosen to be a courtroom protagonist....
Radhan Pandit has always hovered dangerously close to power. Apart from Vijay, he was closely associated with Jayalalithaa and after his move to...
Mamata Banerjee built a politics of presence for women. But when it came to principle, that presence often rang hollow.
Tamil voters are not naive; rather, they engage in a form of political storytelling that blends aspiration with identity. Hero worship has its own...
In Amitav Ghosh’s 'Ghost-Eye', rationality is debated and then edged out. And instead of questioning faith, it privileges it.
As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate...
The stereotype of the fish-loving Bengali has now become a contested political site and both the BJP and TMC know it. And the voters do too.
IPS KK Bishnoi and IPS Anshika Verma’s palatial Jodhpur wedding missed a key truth—power complicates tradition and personal joy.
With the films, Aditya Dhar achieved something Bollywood has been trying to engineer for years—an event blockbuster that dominates both box office...
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.
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