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Screen Southasia: Q&A session for ‘The Next Guardian’

A conversation with the filmmaker Arun Bhattarai, director of ‘The Next Guardian’.

| Jun 15, 2023

Screen Southasia: Q&A session for ‘Is it too much to ask?’

A conversation with the filmmaker Leena Manimekalai and Smile from 'Is it too much to ask?'

| May 11, 2023

The path to women’s political participation in Bhutan

In Bhutan’s 2023 National Council elections, only one woman was elected to the NC from a female population of around 360,000. Despite progress in recent years, women still face challenges to political participation.

| May 08, 2023

Beyond the binary 

Gender in Southasian languages.

| Nov 22, 2022

The making and unmaking of a star

On the life and times of Qandeel Baloch, Pakistan’s first social-media celebrity.

| Jul 26, 2018

Words and warriors

Nepali women slam poets write on their lives and times.

| Sep 26, 2016

Questioning Sairat’s politics

The caste and gender dynamics of Nagraj Manjule’s ‘Sairat’.

| Jul 25, 2016

Of love’s austere and lonely offices

The film Aligarh has ruffled the feathers of conservatives within and outside Aligarh Muslim University.

| May 26, 2016

Women in labour

What are the implications of the rise in commercial surrogacy in India?

| Mar 30, 2015

Of nymphs and flowering trees

Female rites of passage – Ramanujan’s Kannada tales and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

| Mar 20, 2015

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The limited genius of Geoffrey Bawa

‘Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives’ allows an exploration of the rift between the celebrated architect’s vision for nation-building in Sri Lanka and the country’s present reality