When the system itself has consistently displayed insensitivity towards dealing with crimes related to women, the potential for technology of this kind to be misused for the purpose of harassment or quid-pro-quo is scary.

No matter where you look, there is no dearth of powerful women in and around the Biden administration. It's fitting that these capable women have come to the fore to clean up the mess of an outgoing government that will go down in history for its widespread incompetence.

Tough love was the only love language that existed in our house until my brother got home a stray kitten. Very soon, my stoic father was suddenly brimming with kisses and mushy nicknames, and my mother started treating him like her third born – now she doesn’t eat until he does. Unbeknownst, the pet had opened the floodgates to our emotions and expressions.

The Great Indian Kitchen delves into how patriarchy, tradition, and religion often intersect and strip away the agency of women after they get married. It’s yet another example of how regional cinema has succeeded in accurately portraying gender dynamics in our homes.

While I was working on my film on female infanticide, I learnt that those who need not worry about affording dowries, still abort foetuses. A woman said to me in a hushed tone, as she swirled a glass of some pricey white wine, “If I can choose the car I want, or a handbag then why not the sex of a child.”

Sudhir Mishra’s Inkaar uncovers the complexity of workplace harassment. The 2013 film highlights a key feature of twisted power dynamic and gender politics: That while organisations may encourage women employees to speak up, when push comes to shove, people shall protect their own interests first and conveniently side with where the power lies.

Times Now’s Navika Kumar delivered an impassioned monologue recalling her former boss Arnab Goswami. “I wish he had not forgotten values in his quest for success,” she said. Right back at you, ma’am.

The scorecard can never do justice to the historic India vs Australia Test series we just witnessed. This is not the story about great tons and wickets, it’s a story of heroics and emotions – of Cheteshwar Pujara’s bruises, Mohammad Siraj’s tears, Hanuma Vihari’s hamstring, and Ajinkya Rahane’s grit.

After a year in which Bollywood was depicted in the Indian media as a bastion of drug abuse, nepotism, and “anti-national” attitudes, “Death in Bollywood” is a wake-up call that prompts a re-examination of a much more real problem in the film industry: sexism and abuse of power.

The Bombay High Court pulled up news channels over the media trial in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. It stated that parts of the coverage by Republic TV and Times Now in the case was “prima facie contemptuous” of the Mumbai Police.