In India , it’s said that women can have a job , not a career. But however dismal our workforce representation stats might be they can’t beat how misrepresented career oriented women are in popular cinema. In my Theme Reveal post I shared
[B] Badass Women Rule the World #AtoZChallenge Day 2
They say good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere. When it comes to women playing Badass characters , they literally go beyond what we have seen or imagined and isn’t that just what we love about our movies?
[A] Ambition isn’t a dirty word #AtoZChallenge Day 1
It feels like yesterday , when the 2016 April left me partially overwhelmed and completely thrilled . It’s my second daily blogging challenge ever and starting today , I’ll be exploring representation of women in contemporary movies through the month under the
Saying Goodbyes
A feud is never caused by hate. It’s caused by pain. At the heart of every fallout is a little bit of pride , a little bit of ego and a lot of ache . Ache of expectations unmet. The ones
Women In Movies #AtoZChallenge #ThemeReveal
Last year , on the day of the Theme Reveal I’d taken a 5AM flight in the morning , a bus journey to another city at 5PM , posted my theme reveal around midnight & stayed up to read countless blogs thereafter. The inspirational story about
Getting Ready for #AtoZChallenge 2017
I took up #AtoZChallenge in 2016 for the first time. I was so mentally prepared for it , I get goosebumps as I think about it. April 2016 was an Everest with just way too much happening on personal & professional front and
Politics of Silence – Part 2
Silence is power . You’d realize that If you are in a relationship and more so just after an argument or the first date. The person who speaks first loses bargaining power. Silence is prudent. Someone at work often pulls me up
The Pride , Prejudice & Feminism
Passion is a remarkable thing. It pushes us to pursue what we believe in. Blindly. Logic often is set aside as we wade through the world armed with nothing but an idea or even a whim. No wonder , if
The Sisterhood of the most fabulous kind #WomenOfBlogging
When I had not read as many LeanIn articles and was simply finding my way & voice around the blogosphere , I remember being consumed by an idea . Women need to build their tribe. I had rarely felt so strongly about
Does India Need a Feminist Icon?
It was an eventful weekend for the women . Priyanka Gandhi took to the stage at an election rally and for the first time in the longest time someone voiced the demonetization impact on housewives. I remember reading Maggie’s post and