In her poignant novel, The Hour Past Midnight, Salma explores the underlying entanglements of women in a closely-knit community trying to straddle a rugged terrain through resilience.
With Shivraj Singh Chouhan's remark, it seems that the preventive surveillance and policing of women’s movements and behaviours is set to become a lot more literal—all in the name of safety, of course.
Themes of reclamation and resistance can seldom be separated from the work of women authors because of the socio-political context of the world in which they are conceived and created. This is a list of 10 such authors to look out for.
Amol Palekar's movie Anaahat (2003), a Marathi film (Anaahat means Eternity), poses several questions about Niyog Pratha and emphasises on a woman's choice to explore her sexual freedom.
Starring Tilottama Shome and Vivek Gomber, Is Love Enough, Sir? is marketed as a progressive ‘love story’ between a man and his domestic worker that breaks societal barriers.