I wrote an essaay on the mehman nawazi of
#ShahrukhKhan
's being for the Outlook issue on
@iamsrk
- because I love him, because I think he helps us love ourselves, as Indians and as people, because he reminds me of an apnapan whose loss I keenly feel.
What is love?
@surekha
knew - what it is, what it's worth. First time we met she said "I love you dude", alarming me. I love you too dude, but you knew that. Today's
#ParonormalActivity
, in loving memory of a woman who was rightly famous for being herself.
#VidyaSinha
did play a certain type of 1970s middle-class working woman, but what I loved about her was how often she was seen on screen absorbed in her own thoughts. On Rajnigandha in my column
#ParonormalActivity
today
Yogendra Yadav deploying Weapons Of Masi Destruction and delivering a "Khamakha fizool ki baatein mat karo" style scolding to Rahul Kanwal was very enjoyable
The casual way in which Salman Khan tries to humiliate the woman journalist is proof of the horrible, sexist, masculinist culture of Bollywood
#TanushreeDutta
#BollywoodSexism
I wrote Khamosh Pani long ago, sitting young and serious in my tiny place with its big window :). There's a piece about it in today's Indian Express for the 72nd anniversary of Partition.
I want to say to you what you would always say when I sent you pictures of nice things : how dare you? And what you always said with such heart: I love you
@surekha
. Cannot bear that you are gone, beautiful one.
"My tongue has sharpened.
My patience for those that judge
Runs a little thin,
Along with my uterine lining.
All else droops slightly"
Hema Gopinath Sah on growing older, menopause and the ΰ€ ΰ€Ήΰ€°ΰ€Ύΰ€΅ of life's autumn
Arre sister, everyone pays tax who ever buys anything. Income tax is not the only tax. Let your articulation be illuminated by awareness not dimmed by opportunism.
Kangana Ranaut on
#CitizenshipAct
: When you protest, the first thing that's imp is that you don't turn violent. In our population, only 3-4% ppl pay tax, others are actually dependent on them. So, who gives you the right to burn buses, trains & to create ruckus in the country?
#MastMeinRehneKa
may seem like a small film. But its refusal of loneliness, its tenderness for people and for
#Bombay
, its humorous empathy, its understated gloss on
#masculinity
hold big ideas. AND Jackie Shroff+Rakhi Sawant! Today's
#ParonormalActivity
I wrote about (some of) the anxieties about gender, sexuality and change that lie beneath the offence at
#ranveersingh
's photos for the Times of India.
Two women who are my co-passengers in this Uber have been discussing where to eat lunch for the last 3 km. Every place we pass they say "ΰ€―ΰ€Ήΰ€Ύΰ€ ΰ€ΰ₯ ΰ€ ΰ€Έΰ€ΰ€€ΰ₯ ΰ€Ήΰ₯ΰ€". I think I should befriend them.
My first film Annapurna, about a women's food co-op is part of the Rising Gardens festival. The textile mill area its set in is gone, but its questions remain-what is the value of women's work, what is women's value at work? It's live here till the 15th.
Well,
#Patriarchy
gave us civilisation, technology, the state, rule of law, industrialisation, democracy, rights, emancipation of women & everything we take for granted. If you want to βsmashβ patriarchy, then youβre just a sociologically illiterate moron trying to sound cool
Whether you quit when you're ahead like Zaira Wasim or when you're behind, like Rahul Gandhi, quitting makes folks uneasy because it suggests aur bhi sukh hain zamane mein than an ongoing race. Today's
#ParonormalActivity
Some days it feel that only the language of war is audible to people. That to be 'against' something is the only thing they recognise and value, whereas to be speak for and work for a set of ideas is always considered a lesser thing
"What we admire is so overwhelmingly male, so much of the time. And as a result, what we are willing to set aside, what we deem inconvenient, the worse-makers of more important male matters, is overwhelmingly female.Β "
I wrote an (long) essay about how
#boislockerroom
reveals that we need to move beyond adversarial and platitudinal political responses, unpack the mesh of privilege & imagine an education - including
#sexeducation
- about what it means to be a person.
I wrote this when
#ShashiKapoor
died last year. That gentle inclusivity, that expansive, kind masculinity is stil missing in our public conversation and so needed
Lovers often enter a party in disguise.
#Pathaan
comes disguised as an action film but is there any confusion that it is a love story, between
@iamsrk
and his public? Today's
#ParonormalActivity
"Kaala" refuses to be a tragedy, reverses the gaze on caste, social order, urban life and and creates a political film form the embodies an assertive, joyful, liberatory politics. My
@sundaymidday
column
#ParonormalActivity
today
We rely on politics to tell us what love should be. Why donβt we also rely on love to suggest what politics could be? But then we'd have to ask the question what is love? - I wrote an essay for today's India Express Eye about
#love
#violence
&
#politics
Yay! Thrilled! Agents of Ishq's won Laadli award for best campaign- 7 videos & a series of graphics which looked at how women from the 19th century to the present engaged with age, agency, marriage and law. Everymember of the team-and then some-worked on it so it's extra special.
Arre Agents! Weβre so so happy to announce that our
#GrownUpGirls
series has won an award at the 10th Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2018-2019!
@Laadli_PF
It's my grandmother Ashalata's birthday. We have hardly any pictures of her and in truth, pretty patchy knowledge of her life . But film history fans are so amazing, the way they find these traces and send them along. This apparently from an old Sri Lankan magazine. HBD nani π
I wrote a piece for this Sunday's ET special on
#MeToo
about why the world needs to stop swallowing the creative, professional and sexual mediocrity of men when they could be spitting
#BoreMatKarYaar
and really loving and seeing women
#feminism
#love
#sex
I miss admiring other people's saris and shirts and dresses and ribbons and spectacle frames and lipstick and ...well, I miss other people's clothes. Don't you? Today's
#ParonormalActivity
Why do Indians suggest pointless home remedies in the face of dire illness, instead of trusting expertise? Is that what makes the government 'relatable' for some? Today's
#ParonormalActivity
As a philanthropic gesture on behalf of
@SerumInstIndia
, I hereby reduce the price to the states from Rs.400 to Rs.300 per dose, effective immediately; this will save thousands of crores of state funds going forward. This will enable more vaccinations and save countless lives.
Should I dare to watch Heeramandi or proceed through life being un-agitatedly opinion-free, judging no tweets, just beatifically meeting deadlines in a tiny nose-ring?
When magazine covers, film festivals, comedy, commentary β the whole culture β tells us to adore men or, rather, one type of man, how will we learn equality and consent? I wrote this in 2018, but we find ourselves in this conversation again.
#IndianMatchmaking
- we could have had a good relationship if the show did not have so many intimacy issues. I wrote about Indian Matchmaking for today's Economic Times.
"I convinced myself it was my lack of needs that made me worthy of love." To all who have been shamed for wanting love from someone who claims to love you. Warning: this will flood you with sadness
#Delhi
friends and
#Kolkata
folks. Feeling little shy and nervous to share this but. Please come see this little installation of poetry & animation & little bit interactivity ka maza I've done with some fab colleagues. At Max Mueller Bhavan Delhi - Nov 21-22 & Kolkata Nov 26-27.
When the history of the
#Muzaffarnagar
#KisanMahaPanchayat
would be written, the herstory of these thousands of women farmers & farm workers who mobilized from hundreds of villages to defeat the anti-farmer, anti-people
#Modi
regime would also be written in bright colors of π&π
Who will make the chapatis? Why I didn't learn to make rotis (feminism) and what I learned from learning to make them (feminism). Today's
#ParonormalActivity
Quote Tweet with a photo of you that somebody else has taken. Selfies are not allowed. It can be old or new but ideally one that really captures you. :-)
Quote Tweet with a photo of you that somebody else has taken. Selfies are not allowed. It can be old or new but ideally one that really captures you.
Ok :-)
I'm so super happy that Aika to the Baika, a video I directed (something I get to do only sometimes now)won a
@Laadli_PF
award that I can accept looking like a chump in the photo π. Love you Shakku bai. You are too cool to be called a muse but you are something like it for me.
#ParonormalActivity
turns 10 today. A decade traumatising editors with late-sending & a chance to pay attention to the world. I went back to my first columns and found that goodness is as much to be found in this world as there is deliberate indifference.
#Sabyasachi
and the sly print of fabric history - because the line between theft, appropriation and inspiration is rooted in ethics. Today's
#ParonormalActivity
We celebrate 'woman power' when it resembles those in power. We glorify as 'women's strength" those who bear an unfair burden to support that power. Where does that leave women sanitation workers, ASHAs and anganwadi workers? Today's
#ParonormalActivity
#DeepikaPadukone
's persona has always been sincere and valiant. That persona comes together with Chhapaak and her visit to JNU, to present the movie star as citizen, reframing celebrity for a new age. My column
#ParonormalActivity
today
Agents of Ishq is 5 years old! Whodathunkit! So, we made 5 minutes of pure pleasure to celebrate 5 years of pleasure, connection, learning and bloody hard work! Please watch (and please share if you love :)
#work
#SexEducation
#feminism
#art
I never imagined
@AgentsofIshq
would turn into what it has. We are three. years old today. It's been 3 years of solid mehnat but also exhilarating learning and growing and co-creating a community with some amazing people. Thank you! β₯οΈβ₯οΈ
What a remarkable woman. I was impressed by her when the book controversy happened too and by her sense of choosing what enables her then, and now.
#MustRead
?
#Crew
is kind of an allegory for three decades of liberalisation - Frankfinn girls and curdled fantasies. It is fun to watch thanks to the actors who let loose and fly. Too bad the film itself can't. Today's
#ParonormalActivity
. Spoilers and puns ahead
We've heard the phrase "simple middle-class family" so much lately? But what's so simple about the simple family? Some truths about homes in today's
#ParonormalActivity
If the Indian state outsources the projectβs execution to an organization with capacity equalling Scandinavian government systems, with a very low error rate of 1%, 13.5 million Indians would still be erroneously excluded = displacement caused by Partition
Pleasure reintegrates sex with everyday life β but it also goes beyond the fixed destination of sex to embrace a spectrum of desires. Those who find sex difficult, or uninteresting, still have a desire for and a right to pleasure
That's smoll me in English, August! Thanks to a friend who took the video and sent it to me when the film briefly resurfaced a couple months ago. This
#BombayGirl
life of the 1990s was full of so much unscripted tafri and a story collecting willingness to roam around must say
Friends I did not know that my film Q2P, about toilets and the city is the free film of the month on Royal Anthropological Institute Vimeo channel this month! Last two days to watch it now so please do if you're free like it is! Kasam se it is not boring
Funny how the very people who venerated and profiled successful men now seem shocked by their sexual violence. So maybe it's time to change how we define success. My column
#ParonormalActivity
today