Kathryn Stockett’s best-seller “The Help” is being made into a movie. It will be in theatres this August. It was such a lovely book,that I look forward to the film – hopefully it will be as good or better. Here’s a first look :
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My favorite female character
The below post is written for the “Favorite Female Character Contest” at Womens Web. I’ve written about the “The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” before. Reading it is like eating comfort food. This series features Precious Ramotswe, a female detective in Botswana. While I have come across many interesting characters in fiction, when it comes […]
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I’ve written about it here and here, but here’s another article, this time by Indian Express columnist Shailaja Bajpai, where she talks of Indian television propagating harmful ways of thinking instead of doing the reverse : In all soaps, the most important entity is the Family, the most critical event, the Wedding, the central theme […]
Read the rest of this entry »Is this empowerment ?
When I saw this promo on TV, I thought finally – someone with their head screwed on the right way :[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVfL6kmciXM] Unfortunately and horrifyingly, as it turns out in this serial, the heroine, the girl who speaks up, marries the ring-leader of the molesters (the guy in black). Disturbing, to put it mildly. Sevati Ninan […]
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The BBC reports : . . . demand for fair-complexioned brides and grooms to grace these occasions is as high as everFuelling this demand are the country’s 75-odd reality TV shows where being fair, lovely and handsome means instant stardom.As a result, the Indian whitening cream market is expanding at a rate of nearly 18% […]
Read the rest of this entry »Feminism gone astray ?
There are varying views of feminism. And while feminism has core concerns such as equality for women, adequate wages etc., there are also many aspects which are being palmed off as female empowerment, when they are not. I have written about them here and here, and recently I came across an article in the Times […]
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