{"id":2793,"date":"2014-05-15T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T05:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=2793"},"modified":"2019-03-25T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:12:17","slug":"blog-roll-beauty-is-the-beast-how-women-let-their-looks-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/blog-roll-beauty-is-the-beast-how-women-let-their-looks-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty is The Beast: How Women Let Their Looks Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Trisha Gupta<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In a sketch that’s part of the Tadpole Repertory’s superb play Taramandal, a nervous young woman\u00a0arrives at the office of a Bollywood agent. She nods when asked if she wants to be a star. But she doesn’t speak Hindi \u2014 and for the most part of her time on stage, doesn’t speak at all. The more he talks, the more terror-stricken she looks. Eventually he suggests, not unkindly, that she sign up as a Junior Artist, commonly known as an extra. “It’ll be work. And with your looks, you’ll get slotted as A-Class.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For more please go to their website:\u00a0The Sunday Guardian.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Cover photograph of actress Suchitra Sen, who passed away recently.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The young Suchitra Sen \u2013 then plain Krishna Dasgupta \u2013 apparently once sat on a school bench and announced that she would be remembered long after her death. An ordinary middle class girl who was one of nine siblings, and an average student bereft of any artistic talent, all Sen had was her looks. But apparently, that was enough. “She was conscious of her great beauty… and behaved as if she… deserved every bit of the natural selection,” wrote Susmita Dasgupta in a thoughtful Facebook note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,175,1],"tags":[503,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-2793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog-roll","8":"category-body-image","9":"category-categories","10":"tag-body-image","11":"tag-suchitra-sen"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16406,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/16406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}