Sadly, shows on the Indian television lack variety and are mostly interested in good-housewives or obedient and responsible working women-protagonists, (not-forgetting-to-mention: who always ‘have it all’). Because of this, many of us are drawn to American and British shows for more flawed-hence-more-realistic characters. Unfortunately, even here, the genre of comedy, lacked female representation for […]

As my father bought four tickets for the Mary Kom biopic by the same name, a couple of days back, I announced I won’t watch it in protest because the movie, claims to celebrate a Manipuri boxer by casting a Punjabi former Miss World. I tried to stand my ground; for this summoned my wrath […]

If Taylor Swift is indeed a feminist why do her songs not reflect it?

Wage-gap, gender-based workplace policies, lack of flexibility, unsupportive childcare policies…the list is too long. Yet, in spite of all this and much more, women all over the world have been achieving success in all the fields that were considered purely male-dominated, just decades ago.   Having entered the workplaces less than a century back, women […]