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Interview with ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava
Still from "Lipstick Under My Burkha", showing actress Ratna Pathak Shah in a lingerie store

Alankrita Shrivastava made her directorial debut with the film ‘Turning 30!!!’ (2011) and has been committed to telling stories about women from a woman’s perspective. Her second and most recent film ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ (2016) has received international recognition and is slated to release in India in early 2017.

By Anjora Sarangi
January 5, 2017
Interview with ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava
Issue in Focus: “Is that Book Feminist?”
Cartoon of a little girl walking down a road engrossed in a book.

Fiction is a realm within which we can imagine the limitlessness of our feminist realities. By censoring fiction itself in an anxiety to perform what we understand as feminism, is to censor our imaginations, its subtle negotiations with reality and its potential in generating desires and dreams we hardly knew of. Does this mean we don’t critique books and movies? Definitely not! Critique is fun. Critique is important. Critique is how we grow. But the judgement needs to stop.

By Shweta Krishnan
September 1, 2017
Issue in Focus: “Is that Book Feminist?”
Marriage And The Body As A Birthing Vessel
A person with dark hair and glasses holds up a blue picture frame to display the mehendi on their hand and the chura on their wrist. A birthday cake with the number 29 is to the right, and a wine glass is to the left. The person's head is turned to the side; the backdrop is a red wall.

“I don’t always remember that I’m nearing thirty. On an average day the thought that I have a ticking time-bomb…

By Oindrilla DuttaGupta
December 1, 2013
Marriage And The Body As A Birthing Vessel
Of “unapologetically flawed” women and feminism-lite: A review of Four More Shots Please!
The poster of Four More Shots Please, featuring four women in Western clothing, posing, laughing, dancing and having fun.

Four More Shots Please! moves in the right direction when it comes to women (of a particular social stratum), their lives, and feminism at large – even if it takes small, stumbling, baby steps towards it.

By Srishti Gupta
December 1, 2021
Of “unapologetically flawed” women and feminism-lite: A review of Four More Shots Please!
PDA: Slippery Slope from Law to Moral Policing
In the image, two people are sitting on a bench near a lake. The Sun is shining brightly and its reflection can be seen on the lake. A white and red coloured house can also be seen

Sexuality is taboo in our context, and expressions of it publicly or even in the home setting outside the bedroom, especially by those who are not in ‘legitimate’ relationships ‘alarm the modesty’ and are generally considered anti-culture or simply categorised as Western concepts.

By Yoshita Srivastava
September 1, 2020
PDA: Slippery Slope from Law to Moral Policing
Rootless
Nepal Marriage

By birth a woman belongs to her father’s clan, and then she gets given to her husband’s. We forget who our mothers and grandmothers are. Their blood does not flow in our lineage

By Curated Content
March 15, 2017
Rootless
Singlehood and the sexuality of a woman who seemingly knows it all and yet, is confused
Image of a red and yellow coloured flower on a black background

Why is it always so hard to find a place for intimacy and why do we have to lie and cheat our way into getting it? Everything related to non-committal sex was always so taboo, shrouded in secrecy, and eliciting raised eyebrows, that it turned me off.

By Sanjukta Basu
February 15, 2021
Singlehood and the sexuality of a woman who seemingly knows it all and yet, is confused