What #TimesUp India Is Making Me Realise About Myself
India’s #TimesUp / #MeToo movement is up and kicking. It brought…Pain. Disbelief. Grief. Guilt. Rage. And also…Joy.
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India’s #TimesUp / #MeToo movement is up and kicking. It brought…Pain. Disbelief. Grief. Guilt. Rage. And also…Joy.
Most of us are entrapped in boundaries set by other people that have become prisons. Boundaries are only good when you set them yourself.
AgentsOfIshq ran a story of mine on dark skin pride and my love of colour.
The Ocean franchise is what I like to think of as Smooth Masculine (but still very masculine) — a format popularized by the early James Bonds. They’re stylish and suave. They actually talk, even intimidate, with words rather than their fists. In itself, this digresses from the usual toxic masculine image of…
I called rainbowwashing in pride month. Alex Strangelove is narcissistic and an insulting representation of queer people.
Can on-screen feminism go beyond the samajh-sudharak, abla naari turned Kali maa & speech spouting devi? Let’s meet some of the subtler on-screen feminists.
This weekend saw the Netflix Originals premier of ‘Lust Stories‘ – a format repeat from the 2013 anthology ‘Bombay Talkies’, with the same four directors, each contributing one story. Let me pause a minute to CRINGE at that name so you can understand why I was expecting something along on…
‘Veere Di Wedding’ caused an uproar. Why? Because Indian audiences find it intolerable for women to laugh, much less laugh together.
If you didn’t grow up in the 90s, you may not have seen this video. Indeed, you may never have experienced the phenomenon that was Madonna. Madonna was such an important reference in pop culture at the time, not necessarily because she was that talented but because of how she…
I have been a fan of the romcom since it became possible for me to choose what to watch. Now, I find myself wincing during rewatches.