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Words like "superstition", "suspicion", and "in the name of", start to stand in for the crime committed against women, while those who commit it slowly fade out of focus
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Goddesses are a myth. Phoolan was real.
When a woman commits a crime, the storytelling often drifts from the nature of the crime to her physical attributes, moral values and the idea that she has transgressed the roles assigned to her by society
Reporting crimes allegedly committed by women is often designed to titillate rather than to condemn, serving as an additional means of boosting viewership and TRPs
Media accounts simultaneously cast her as victim and avenger, until a life shaped by caste violence and gendered oppression was repackaged into a consumable myth of dishonour and revenge
In 2020, 10 Dalit women were raped daily in India. The Hathras victim was among them. The way her case was remade into fiction proves twisted headlines can rewrite rapes and erase women
Media narratives—especially when women are involved—can end up amplifying suspicion and weaponising gender
In crimes against women, justice is shaped not only in courtrooms but in newsrooms where narrative determines whose suffering becomes national conscience and whose fades into procedural silence
The trope of transforming sexual violence against women into a springboard for rage that can only be channelled through counter-violence has long served as a popular framework in cinema, both globally and in India
Women are not just victims or side characters in recent crime-and-power OTT dramas. They are complex forces—capable of empathy, strategy and ruthlessness—whose narratives demand both recognition and reckoning
Why are the rich and powerful of the world scared of what lies buried in the Jeffrey Epstein files?
Are rumours of the death of the rule of law vastly exaggerated?
Narendra Modi’s presence in Israel is being read not just as a bilateral engagement, but as an endorsement of Israeli action in Gaza and the West Bank
Perhaps Boong’s recent BAFTA win, and the international attention it should bring to Manipur, will be the first step towards better things in a region that truly deserves it
Poonam Saxena’s translations of Mannu Bhandari and Rajendra Yadav’s memoirs present a portrait of the trailblazing Hindi writer-couple’s marriage and of newly independent India
Whether speaking through a downpour or addressing a minority outreach meeting scheduled on the evening of Chhath Puja, the act of showing up despite unfavorable conditions became a powerful statement of commitment and resilience in the long political fight, Gaurow writes.
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Suresh Triveni’s film, released on Amazon Prime Video, is far more interested in packaging the 69-year-old Anil Kapoor as an action hero again. The arc of the everyday man who has tolerated enough is incoherent as he does not engage meaningfully with the oppressed for most of the film.
From the Ambassador to the Fiat Spider, the machines that once defined the streets of Bombay now live on through films and a new generation determined to remember them.
American war cinema has repeatedly portrayed military invasions as heroic and justified as much as they’ve depicted foreign lands as volatile spaces that need intervention. These films shape how audiences perceive war, gradually normalising militarisation and surveillance in the garb of nationalism.
Young Sherlock, streaming on Amazon Prime Video, is more wholesome than shrewd or cynical, unlike the other renditions that have been resurrected before.
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During my recent visit to Benares, I found myself walking through a city reshaped by ambition, reordered by authority, and increasingly uncomfortable with the very rituals that had sustained it for centuries
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