Maithili Rao

The idea of the self-sacrificing, nobly suffering woman has been an inherent part of Indian cinema for nearly a century. Jeo Baby is the latest film-maker to join the honourable list of men questioning this compliance in his marvellous The Great Indian Kitchen. Six months is a long time for a film on the net. [&hellip;]

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Feminism From The Matrilineal Land

MW Staff

Growing up in a liberal Muslim family in Kolkata, with interfaith marriages aplenty, came with more boons than banes. For one, education was never a question of any contention. Second, marriage was never pressure. Unlike many of my contemporaries (Read: daughters of family friends and relatives), I wasn’t pursuing my English Honours degree from Loreto [&hellip;]

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Will Marry, And Stay Woke

Ashwini Anand

A Bengaluru-based college has begun a programme, Reserved for Men, that aims to help men become more sensitized, understand gender issues and to be equitable partners in the household

Gender

Gender equality

Gender issues

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A Programme Specifically For Men To Help Them Be Better Men

Saad Khan

The Flying Officer breaks through a key gender barrier and creates history

air force

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India

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Avani Chaturvedi Becomes the First Indian Woman to Fly a Fighter Jet Solo

If only Srijit Mukherjee had spent some more time developing his half-baked ideas about feminism into something more substantial.

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Begum Jaan

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5 Women Empowerment Films That Got It All Wrong

Alshaar Khan

The Harry Potter actress’ bare breasted shoot for Vanity Fair magazine has invited criticism, given Emma’s feminist image

Beauty and the Beast

emma watson

emma watson controversy

emma watson feminism

emma watson hypocrite

emma watson nude shoot

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emma watson vanity fair

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Emma Watson Poses ‘Topless’: Should There Be A Feminism Debate?

The event was definitely a star studded affair.

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March of solidarity

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Voicing their opinion

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Women rights

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Celebrities Who Turned Up For The Women’s March

Bollywood in the &#8217;90s successfully equated romance with stalking.

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Groping

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sexual harassment

Songs that don't give a shit about consent

stalking

the 90s

What were they thinking?

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5 Bollywood Songs That Don’t Give A Damn About Consent

Arnesh Ghose

With episodes about period songs and marital rape to fuck buddies and stalkers, the women writing and starring in Indian web series are shattering the glass ceiling, questioning authority and holding a proud middle finger in the face of patriarchy.

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Dating and relationships

Girliyapa

Indian Visual Content

internet

Ladies Room

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Pappu and Papa

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How Women Are Winning The Internet

Monica Yadav is a part-time Uber cab driver from Ahmedabad whose undying passion for driving cars led to her career choice.

Ahmedabad

First woman chauffer

First woman driver

Follow your heart

Guajrat

inspiration

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This Post-Graduate Student Is Gujarat’s First Female Chauffeur

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