Armed With TikTok And More, Young India Is Taking On Period Stigma In India’s...
A college in Bhuj, Gujarat, in February this year forced 68 women students to remove their underwear to prove they weren’t bleeding. While India has approximately 355 million menstruating women and...
View ArticleMeet Sitaram Tudu, A Tribal Folk Singer With A Dream To Preserve His Culture
It is songs that carry the weight of tribal histories and culture and if singing these songs holds that much strength, then I cannot and must not quit music,” said Sitaram Tudu, a musician from...
View ArticleHere’s How Tripura’s Tribal Communities Use Bamboo To Make Chicken Cages
Written by Rabindra Debbarma and translated from Kokborok by Manisha Debbarma Bamboo is one of the most versatile resources that a forest provides people living near it. Right from using it as a...
View ArticleNetflix Partners With A Man Known For Touching Women Inappropriately
Trigger Warning: Distressing Content Less than 2 years ago, a Twitter user accused comedian Kanan Gill of inappropriately touching her and two of her friends when they tried taking a picture with him....
View ArticleHarvesting Tree Fungi Is A Way of Life For These Paniyar Tribals In Tamil Nadu
Written by Murugeshwari and translated from Tamil by Nisha Felicita Adivasi and tribal food relies heavily on the herbs, plants and trees available in the forests. They are well versed with the native...
View ArticleBadass, Brutal And Bold: Chris Hemsworth Leads The Charge In “Extraction”
Less than a minute into the film, we see a man gunning down a bunch of Bangladeshi commandos. Tyler Rake is a mercenary and cares for nothing other than money. He will do whatever he can to get the job...
View ArticleO Womaniya, We Need To Talk About Patriarchy
Does the title of this post ring some bell? If yes, I am glad. Do read it. If not, I am going to tell you about it, so please do read it. This is the period of COVID-19, the era of lockdown; the virus...
View ArticleThis Ramzan, A Look Back At Everyone Who Taught Me Love, Respect And Equality
Ramzan Mubarak to all of you, no matter where are you from, what faith you follow, even if you do not believe in anything. I believe that religion must exist only in our personal spheres. I have...
View ArticleReview: Amrita Mahale Needs To Shed Her ‘Milk Teeth’ Soon
Amrita Mahale’s first novel Milk Teeth is an interesting work with a mixture of nostalgic childhood memories, the Bombay life, Indian politics, and three young people who are in search of their...
View ArticleReview: ‘Mere Dad Ki Dulhan’ Is A Pleasant Change From Other Indian Serials
The only astounding aspect of the popular television drama Mere Dad Ki Dulhan is its distinctiveness. It has so far aptly depicted what the avid TV viewers liked in the story interestingly. Although...
View ArticleIrrfan Khan, Cinema Shall Never Be Able To Mourn Your Loss
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.” – Yann Martel, Life of Pi. An image of Irrfan Khan’s cool...
View ArticleRemembering Irrfan Khan’s Many Lives: From Roohdar to Rana Chaudhary
Goodbye, Professor Ganguly. An actor par excellence, Irrfan Khan passed away on April 29, 2020, after a prolonged battle with cancer. “Actor Irrfan Khan died in a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday, losing a...
View Article“इरफान, आप ज़िन्दगी की जंग हारे नहीं हैं, आपने तो पूरी दुनिया को जीना सिखाया”
अभिनेता इरफान खान का लंबे समय से चल रही बीमारी के कारण 53 साल की उम्र में आज निधन हो गया। मंगलवार को उन्हें मुम्बई के कोकिलाबेन अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया गया था, जहां आईसीयू में उन्हें सांस लेने में काफी...
View Article9 Irrfan Khan Movies I Will Always Hold Close To My Heart
Irrfan Khan’s body of work, spanning over three decades, has been so immensely diverse and vibrant that attempting to put it down in words feels like injustice. The cinematic adventure that he has...
View ArticleRemembering Irrfan Khan’s Work Through Some Of His Most Poetic Dialogues
Cheers to the man who was light years ahead of his peers in acting, while being a good human being. His last best dialogue, according to me, was: “जब आदमी का सपना टूट जाता है न, तो आदमी खतम हो जाता...
View Article“भाईयो और बहनों नमस्कार, मैं इरफान आज आपके साथ हूं भी और नहीं भी”
53 साल के साहबज़ादे इरफान अली खान ने अपनी माँ की मौत के 5 दिन बाद यह कहते हुए अलविदा कह दिया कि उनकी अम्मा उनको लेने के लिए आ गईं। 2018 से कैंसर जैसी भयानक और दर्दनाक लड़ाई से लड़ रहे इरफान ने मुंबई के...
View ArticleLet’s Countdown To Top Ten Movies Of Irrfan Khan
Irrfan Khan was a phenomenal actor who traversed easily through both Bollywood and Hollywood. Let’s remember the great actor by counting down to his top ten roles. The film which got Irrfan Khan his...
View ArticleYou Will Be Remembered Till Eternity
It’s too hard to believe you left us, you and your acting were very close to our heart. I still remember in 2003, the first time I saw you, in a telefilm in star plus “Star Bestsellers – Ek Shaam Ki...
View Article“Piku Will Always Hold A Special Place In My Heart”
Irrfan Khan is known for his smouldering intensity in films like Maqbool and Haider. Even films like Jurassic Park and Slumdog Millionaire, where he plays small parts, his characteristic anger seems to...
View Articleऋषि कपूर अपनी फिल्मों के ज़रिए हमेशा ज़िंदा रहेंगे
इरफान खान के निधन के बाद आज सुबह-सुबह ऋषि कपूर के निधन की खबर स्तब्ध करने वाली थी। विश्वास ही नहीं हो रहा था कि हम सबको इतना आनंदित करने वाले अभिनेता ऋषि की तपस्या टूट गई। मन बहुत ही व्यथित था और बरबस...
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