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Hardik Pandya Might Become a Better Celebrity, But it’ll Take More than Our Outrage to Change Him

Men like Hardik Pandya are simply by-products of decades of patriarchy that has always seen women as somebody’s property – not somebody. And they will continue to air their dirty mindsets in private even after their public censuring.

Purba Ray April 23, 2016

Love and Sex

How to Date a Married Man: Lessons in Infidelity from My Aunt

My Aunt Astrid had an affair with a married man, who finally picked his wife over her. She showed me that carrying bitterness in your heart is counterproductive, especially when you know what you are in for once you agree to be the “other person” in a relationship.

Damian D'souza April 18, 2016

Bollywood

30 Years of ChaalBaaz: The Sridevi Classic is Proof that Good Comedy Has Nothing to Do with Gender

ChaalBaaz is not a Rajinikant movie or a Sunny Deol movie. It’s instead a Sridevi movie. She is indeed the superstar, the good old “Michaeli Jacksoni”, who single-handedly drives the movie through her impeccable comic timing.

Runjhun Noopur April 16, 2016

POV

Why Has #MeToo Scared Every Man

Instead of looking at the positives of the #MeToo movement, I actively tried to pinpoint its imperfections – by focussing on legal loopholes or that one woman who made a false accusation on Twitter. I started finding reasons to convince myself that there was something wrong with the movement. But why was I making excuses for sexual harassers?

Hardik Rajgor April 14, 2016

Gender

Beware of the Brocialist

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, there is a new species of men to study: Brocial-ists. Dudes who are supposedly woke and espouse the right kind of politics, but are utter douchebags to women.

Apoorva Sripathi April 11, 2016

Gender

Best of Arré: The Year of the Fearless Femme

The Harvey Weinstein story was a reckoning like none other. In other fields, other battles continue. But as far as the online world is concerned, this was the Year of the Fearless Femme.

Arré Bench April 9, 2016

Bollywood

Is Radhika Apte Now Bollywood’s Token Angry Feminist?

There’s a new stock character type in Bollywood, and she is the token feminist. Always powerful, headstrong, and argumentative, you’ll see her in everything from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil to Sacred Games. She’s the effeminate gay man of this decade.

Sreemoyee Mukherjee April 8, 2016

Pop Culture

The Secret Sex Lives of our Buajis

More than being an incisive account of the inner lives of four women, Lipstick Under My Burkha is an unflinching commentary on the existence of sexual lives of the elderly.

Poulomi Das April 7, 2016

Pop Culture

Anaarkali and the Assumptions of Availability

Anaarkali of Arrah is relevant to every woman engaged in a profession where being attractive is mandatory. To men, the fact that they've paid for a service, extends to them having paid for the woman's company.

Poulomi Das March 31, 2016

Pop Culture

Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors Review: A Tale about Abuse and Marital Rape that Becomes Predictable

Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors feels like a tired attempt at resuscitating characters and a world that frankly needed more than just the injection of precious ideas like domestic abuse, marital rape, and consent. Even Pankaj Tripathi and his mastery of the OTT space cannot elevate the second season.

Manik Sharma March 31, 2016