A Lahore student compares the web series ‘Heeramandi’ and film ‘Kalank’, both centred on Partition-era Lahore courtesans, and finds that both period dramas fail to capture the tawaifs’ history and the city’s significance, which remain misrepresented in Bollywood’s romanticised gaze.
Film critic Suparna Sharma points out how rape and women’s trauma are used in Indian films as a cinematic tool to show men earning personal glory.
Ace fashion designer Anju Modi offers us a fresh look and a step back from our hyper-connected world in her new spring-summer collection ‘Masakali’.
With her on-screen roles and off-screen outspokenness, Swara Bhaskar is challenging the status quo and raising the bar for Bollywood role models.
There are two battles being fought in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavat. One is the grim reality of war fought from Khilji’s side without honour. The other: fought by the women, fought with honour, to have a final say on their bodies.
A spotlight on women in the news and news of interest to women this week.
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