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The Marvellous Mrs Maisel Asks, “What’s So Funny About Checking Your Privilege?”

As a privileged upper-class woman, Midge Maisel keeps her comedy a secret from her elite social circle. But the second season of The Marvellous Mrs Maisel explores Midge’s anxiety as her disparate worlds collide.

Kahini Iyer March 23, 2016

Gender

Why Do Women Suck at Negotiating Salaries?

Why do so many women settle for lowball salary offers, far under the value that our experience merits? For all our idealism and outspoken feminism, when it is time to bat for ourselves in the most elementary of ways, why do we consistently fail ourselves?

Sonali Kokra March 19, 2016

First Person

I Am Fat Because My Body Houses All My Trauma

I was constantly being told that I needed to lose weight to look good, to find a boyfriend, to be accepted. But staying fat was probably my body’s rebellion against the society that so desperately wanted to change me. My body is a vault that stores all my secrets, all my traumas.

Manjiri Indurkar March 17, 2016

Gender

A New Wish for the New Year: #MeToo Must Reach Small Town India, And How Bollywood Can Help

In the small-town imagination, the idea of modernity is borrowed from Bollywood – the feisty Tanu from Tanu Weds Manu, the rebellious Rumi from Manmarziyaan. Where are all the well-rounded girls who are compassionate and caregiving, but fierce and independent? The limitations of this modernity will always come in the way of a small-town MeToo movement.

Manjiri Indurkar March 15, 2016