FOR long now, the grapevine has carried news about harassment of actresses on and off sets. Of over-friendly co-stars, people who barge in uninvited into actresses’ rooms with a spare key and those who molest them in a crowd. All this would be dutifully printed...
You can run around with girls and boys all your life and it’s considered adorable; but when second puberty strikes, it’s like you’re suddenly walking a thin line between friends and potential lovers. Yes. Life is strange. I’ve gotten along with guys better than with...
When Vesta Spivakovsky’s two-year-old daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband, the child’s father, Vesta was left to deal with a crime that wasn’t recognised by the law in Russia. ‘Family kidnapping’ had no established legal recourse and in 2010, Vesta had no experience of dealing...
How would you define yourself? I think I would define myself as a happy, honest, loving and authentic person. First thing you do when you wake up? I cannot do anything but look at and check updates on my phone. Last thing you do before...
Rarely do women who get a chance to migrate to the US decide to come back, let alone indulge in their creative passions. But Thrissur-native Shruthi Namboodiri is one of those rare few for whom the creative possibilities in her home, Kerala, were more luring...
“In some parts of India, staying alive is perhaps more traumatic than being dead.” — Hunger’s Daughters, pg. 132 Ostensibly, Hunger’s Daughters is about India’s girl child. Her life, her sorrows, her abandonment and abuse. Her labour. On a re-read, Hunger’s Daughters is an indictment...
Apparently, actor Sathyaraj likes to cheat on his diet when his daughter Divya is not around. “I’m a bossy daughter and dad’s very scared of me, so he’ll listen to me. But the minute I leave the house, he’ll be happy to grab a burger,”...
A week into 2019, a landmark judgement in Ireland announced that psychological and emotional abuse in intimate relationships would be considered a crime in that country. While I know I will not live to see the day when India acknowledges emotional abuse, let alone consider...
1. How would you define yourself? I think I would define myself as fearless, something I inherited from my mother. My mother is very confident and fearless in whatever she does and I proudly take after her. 2. The first thing you do when you...
ONE look at her Instagram posts and it’s easy to figure what matters most to Rashmika Mandanna: her parents; videotaping younger sister Shiman’s antics; playing with her numerous dogs, a cat and a menagerie of birds; spending time in Coorg; and goofing around with her...
