Project ‘Virasat’: Reviving The Legacy Of Pichvai Paintings Of Nathdwara
Project Virasat, an endeavour of Enactus SRCC, a student-run organisation, aims to revive the legacy or the virasat of languishing art forms of India. Project Virasat, in a joint initiative with Dr...
View ArticleFeminist Media As An Alternative Mainstream Media
Media plays a huge role in shaping the perception of ourselves and of the world we inhabit therefore it is of critical importance that we concerned ourselves with media messages and how it impacts our...
View Articleआदिवासी गोंड जनजाति के उद्गम स्थल कचारगढ़ की अनसुनी कहानी
कचारगढ़- जहां विराजमान हैं गोंड आदिवासियों के देवता। वैसे, पूर्व महाराष्ट्र के सीमावर्ती प्रांत में स्थित गोंदिया ज़िले का नाम सुनते ही हर किसी की आंखों के सामने नक्सल प्रभावित क्षेत्र की तस्वीर खड़ी हो...
View Articleपश्चिमी सभ्यता के अंधानुकरण में विलुप्त होती हमारी संस्कृति
इतिहास में हमें यह बात पढ़ाई जाती रही है कि जब दुनिया की सारी सभ्यताएं अपना बर्बर जीवन व्यतीत कर रहीं थी, तब भारत में वेद की ऋचाएं गूंजती थीं। महिलाओं का भी यज्ञ में बराबर का योगदान रहता था। हमारी...
View ArticleDrishyam Is A Well-Written Series, With A Brilliant Climax, But One BIG Letdown
TW: Sexual violence Spoiler alert! However, the movie is not without loopholes. The movie has come under fire from certain sections amidst the huge praise pouring in for the sequel. Especially the...
View ArticleCriminalising Marital Rape Is The Solution, Not ‘Marrying The Perpetrator’!
Trigger warning: Mentions of rape For a complete era, Bollywood has glorified marriage after rape as a punishment for the perpetrator as opposed to a punishment for the victim, who, as a result of such...
View ArticleEnola Holmes Is A Fantastic Feminist Retort To Patronising Tales And...
The whimsical adventure feature film of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes’ teenage sister Enola Holmes is about the life of the titular young teenage girl and her pursuit for her mother Eudoria Holmes who...
View ArticleKolkata Filmmaker Aneek Chaudhuri Makes Film ‘The Last Apple’ On Syria
Filmmaker Aneek Chaudhuri gears up for his short film, commenting on the atrocities faced by women in Syria. The film is titled The Last Apple; it speaks about human rights and most importantly, rights...
View Articleब्रज की विश्वप्रसिद्ध अनूठी लट्ठमार होली का त्यौहार
“मेरी चुनर में पड़ गयो दाग री, कैसो चटक रंग डारो” ऐसी मान्यता है कि ब्रज में होली खेलने के रिवाज़ की 5000 साल पुरानी परंपरा है। हिंदू कैलेंडर के अनुसार हर वर्ष होली का उत्सव चैत्र मास की प्रतिपदा तिथि...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Echoing a Shadow’ by Soniya Kanchan Will Leave You Mesmerized
How often do we run out of words (and thoughts) whilst speaking? There are countless instances wherein it becomes difficult for us to put words into our thoughts. Well, that is because not all emotions...
View ArticleMale Gaze, Pretty Privilege And The Undue Pressure On Women To Be Beautiful
The “male gaze”, now popularly known as a feminist theory, was originally a film theory. In her essay titled Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey elaborated on the objectification and...
View ArticleIndia Needs More Films Like Tribhanga
Tribhanga is a film I would love to watch again and again. Written and directed by Renuka Sahane, it opens with a writer played by Tanvi Azmi and centers around this woman who is a writer and a very...
View ArticleHow Can We Guide Young Journalists Towards Better, More Ethical Journalism?
Journalism, a question mark that’s getting bigger with every passing day. It’s the need of the hour when we all are supposed to ask ourselves where our next generation is heading, what is wrong with...
View Article”हे! मेरी वुमनिया “
हे! मेरी वुमनिया तुम पढ़ो-लिखो फिर मनचाहा ख्वाब पूरा करो खूब मौज करो जीवन में जो मन करे वो काम करो पर आलस को अभी से दूर करो। क्योंकि, आराम हराम है अनोखे काम से हमारा नाम है जिंदगी में काम करो ऐसा कि हर...
View Articleमहिलाओं से जुड़े अपराध को स्थानीय समाचार-पत्रों में कितनी प्राथमिकता?
“यदा-यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत। अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम ।। परित्राणाय साधूनाम विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम। धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे-युगे ।।” “यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र...
View Article‘Samantha’: An Event By ICCR Hyderabad To Bring Queer Community Artists Forward
For the first time in Hyderabad, the LGBTQ+ communities were offered a space to present their art by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR), the Ministry of External Affairs, and the...
View Articleभारतीय सिनेमा की अग्रणी नायिका देविका रानी
देविका रानी का शुमार भारतीय सिनेमा की अग्रणी व महान नायिकाओं के तौर पर होता है। देविका रानी ने बीस के दशक में रिलीज एक द्विभाषी फिल्म से सिनेमा का रूख किया था। उसे उस समय के जाने माने निर्माता हिमांशु...
View ArticleFrom Colourism To Saviour Complex, Bollywood’s Serious Representation Problem
A saree-clad Akshay Kumar with bangles on his wrist, doing the distinct ‘clap’ linked with the hijra community and imitating other stereotypical balderdash goes ahead to make a movie monetarily backed...
View ArticleOur Beloved Media Died A Thousands Deaths This Past Year
2020 was a year of sad words. Social distancing, quarantine, lockdown; every word that is an anathema to the human race became a word to be remembered religiously. COVID-19, to say very subtly, changed...
View ArticleBollywood, Boys and Bias: The Flawed Representation Of Masculinity
There it goes again! The latest movie of the Top notch Khan of Bollywood is a hit at the box office. The girls can’t stop drooling over the ripped and chiselled body of the superstar and the boys, well...
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