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Articles with tag: emancipation

Vanaja: A Movie That Moves Your Heart

Ras Siddiqui   Oct 4, 2007   interacts: 11

Either Writer-Director Rajnesh Domalpalli is one of the luckiest first filmmakers around or true contender for future international movie fame.

Bandit Queen

mukta srivastava   Jun 24, 2007   interacts: 8

Shall we ever understand why a woman, so violent, got so much support and protection in rural India and made it to Parliament? Shall we ever unravel the mystique of power of illiterate, landless masses in bringing about so profound a change?

The Veil Issue, Once Again

Aparna Pande   Oct 16, 2006   interacts: 24

Veils were worn by women in Europe during the Victorian era and earlier decades. Society did not institute a banning of veils, rather over a period of time society changed and the veil vanished. Similar is the case of the hijab and the burkha. Education,

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