Each of us is modelling behaviour for someone else. Luckily, being a hero does not have to be a full-time job
4 min read8 Aug 2020'Rekha: The Untold Story' taps into that irresistible fantasy of knowing a who has been mythologized all her life
2 min read8 Sep 2016Louis Vuitton's spring summer womenswear campaign has a man as one of the leading ladies
3 min read23 Jan 2016Many lead roles in Hindi cinema went to women this year. As it ends, we look at the Indian film heroine since the 1970s
2 min read27 Dec 2014K. Balachander's heroines, and others from films in the 1970s and 1980s, played complex roles and scandalized the Tamil society of that time
4 min read27 Dec 2014She blazed through the 1970s as the hip, Westernized, oomph girl on screen
1 min read27 Dec 2014The era of the ideal virgin woman in Hindi cinema has passed. But a heroine asserting her sexual agency is still a rarity
6 min read27 Dec 2014A bridge between the New Wave and the formulaic, Shabana Azmi's acting oeuvre is full of risks, contradictions, variety and excellence
4 min read29 Dec 2014Through her dazzling comeback this year, Malayalam actor Manju Warrier has broken the mould that has long defined Kerala's film heroines
6 min read27 Dec 2014Detective, boxer, politicianwomen played a variety of lead roles in 2014. How did that reflect at the box office or alter producers' mindsets?
5 min read27 Dec 2014The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared