Feminist Review: Sindhu Bhairavi’s Male Gaze & Strong Woman Tropes
The 1985 Tamil film ‘Sindhu-Bhairavi’ under a feminist lens shows a nuanced male storyteller gaze and some strong woman tropes. Does that make it feminist?
Music
Musical But Not By Identity
I come from musical history. I trained in vocals & an instrument. I’ve won prizes, performed concerts. But music is not my identity.
A Voice To Shatter The Glass Ceiling
I broke a glass ceiling of my own, as a student representing my college on the campus festival circuit.
A Song Of Silence
What does loneliness sound like? A scream that no one seems to hear. Gasps that don’t make it past the throat. Sentences written in invisible ink. The redacted words on a page. It’s feeling unwanted, unnecessary, irrelevant even. Then you remember. You still exist. The print under the graffiti, the face…
Angry Girl Of Indie Rock Persuasion
I was an angry girl of the Indian rock persuasion in a saree.
Storytellers On The Streets – Musicians & Me
Gully Boy was rife with triggers. Musicians have hurt me. But we’re storytellers together.
Madonna’s ‘Bad Girl’ – Feminist Or Not?
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…
And Then There Was Music
I sang. There was music.
The Moody Artist Cliche
This great myth of the tortured artist, the starving writer, the moody creator needs to be debunked once and for all.
A Retro Generation: Burnt Out Firecrackers & Faded Flowers
“It was rebellion. Just like every other generation.”