Tag: doing gender

• Musings after watching Pataakha

  

  I happened to chance upon Pataakha (PT) – the movie, which is now available on Amazon Prime. Vishal Bhardwaj is an immensely talented director, and PT did not disappoint. I gather that it did not perform well at the box-office, primarily due to the release of Sui Dhaaga (SD) during the same time. SD had bigger stars…

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  29 Dec 2018

  Audience, Bollywood, Customer Review, Film, Gender, Story

  aspirations, bending gender, charan singh pathik, detail, dipper, do behnein, doing gender, dreams, film review, gender, is this too unladylike for you?, movie, movies, musings, pataakha, radhika madan, sahitya kala academy, sanya malhotra, shakespeare, short story, sonchiriya, sunil grover, thoughts, two sisters, vijay raaz, vishal bhardwaj, women

• The walls of the room I am building

  

  The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies had their research day conference on 26th May 2014 in Amsterdam. The day was titled – Doing Gender in the Netherlands: Feminism in Transition (Activism, Institutions and Canons). I was there to present a paper: Tumbling Wall: Adrienne Rich Dismantles a Male Form. My paper spoke about the…

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  1 Jun 2014

  Academic, Awareness, Books, Poetry, Story, Travel

  Adrienne Rich, amsterdam, awareness, canons, doing gender, feminism, gender studies, Ghazal, graduate school, Mirza Ghalib, NOG, phd, poems, research, structure, study, the netherlands, transition