Paromita Chakrabarti

In Bhansali's films, male gaze masquerades as women's aspiration and agency

Indian Express' Paromita Chakrabarti and Pooja Pillai debate Bhansali's cinema and his feminism. Through their pieces, they offer not this-versus-that, but the best of both sides.

This failure is not that of the government or political parties alone. Far too many women are told that they are ‘fortunate' to have families that ‘allow' them to work outside or have partners who help around the house.

Weeks after Canadian Nobel laureate's death, her daughter tells the story of abuse at the hands of Munro's husband — and the writer's silent acquiescence

Even if one were to put away moral considerations, half-knowledge is dangerous preparation for the competitive realm of higher education. In particular, when it comes to the sciences, always aspirational for India’s middle class, it is unhelpful to remain divorced from standardised global discourses on it

What we don't talk about when we talk about rape Not the power asymmetries that silence women and are at the heart of all sexual violence, nor the masculine, majoritarian language of the law that puts the burden of guilt back on women

Whether in power or in Opposition, it is in her role as the underdog that the West Bengal CM has been most at ease. But she now finds herself at an impasse. Can she find a way out of it?

In this time of rapid environmental change, climate fiction is a genre that is increasingly gaining currency, even if its practitioners are still finding their way around the scope of the Anthropocene.

In the sparsely-written work, Desai explores the unknown layers to individual lives that get subsumed in the quiet violence of the everyday

For most millennial parents, there is little or no precedence on how they can guide their children through this problem, given their own digital gap and the impracticality of keeping a surveillance on children's online lives. They could do with all the help possible