Will Shaheen Bagh Be The Turning Point In Indian Electoral Politics?
Shaheen Bagh protestors have shown the rest of the country how to protest peacefully, and be heard.
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Pune Edition Of Women Writers’ Fest Celebrates Diversity In Literature
The Pune edition of Women Writer’s Fest was a day of intense sharing and bonding, and the festival was concluded on a note of bonhomie as the audience mingled freely with the panellists.
Women Are Scripting Their Own Stories At Pune Women Writers’ Fest
A big part of the stories of all these women is the fact that they’re women entrepreneurs in what is still a male-dominated industry.
Writers Can Hold Up A Mirror To Society: Women Authors At WWF Pune
“If you have a pen, you have the power to write and change the way people look at the world. If we write about people in protests, it will remain forever and people will know the power of human determination and imagination.” – Sudha Menon
I Only Know Disbalance And Disbalancing Is Normal For Me: Sudha Menon
“I write multiple books at a time, I go to workshops, I just started my career in acting. I wish sometimes that I had a less restless soul.” – Sudha Menon
Men Didn’t Deter Me Ever: Dolly Thakore At Women Writers Fest
For the fourth panel at the Women Writers’ Fest in Mumbai, theatre actors Dolly Thakore and Ira Dubey sat down with moderator Sudha Menon for a candid and spunky conversation on Feisty Women and Feisty Stories. From success and failure, and experimenting with jobs and life, Thakore and Dubey relegated the audience with personal stories, which […]
Sudha Menon’s Feisty At Fifty Shows That Life Indeed Begins At Fifty
Feisty at Fifty is a moving personal story and a guide to making the fifties the most fabulous decade of your life. An excerpt from the chapter ‘The Pursuit of Middle-aged Sexiness’: I was at lunch with the girl gang sometime before I turned fifty and the conversation veered towards how we were ageing and […]
Writers’ Fest: Meeting Women We Only Know As Radio Voices
If you live even in a moderately big city, there is no chance that you have remained unexposed to radio voices. The private radio station revolution, which gripped Indian metros in late 2000, has now even percolated into small towns and cities. And this space is ruled by radio jockeys or RJs who command a […]
Do Women Writers In India Face Sexism For Their Writing?
If you are a woman, the propensity of facing barriers in carving out a career in any given field is high. The literary field is no different. Women writers are often dismissed as writing either ‘chicklit’ and ‘romance’ or being too sentimental and ‘feminine’ in their writing. In a world where mansplaining and male chauvinism […]
Only women can make themselves happy: Lisa Pingale at Punewaali
“My favourite roles are those that portray me not black, white but grey,” says award-winning actor Saie Tamhankar during #Punewaali, SheThePeople’s flagship effort to celebrate women of Pune. Saie busts myths that actors are projecting a make belief world, and instead prefers roles that portray her as a real-world person with real stories and challenges. […]
