Search Results for Tag: bollywood
From Gaza to bikini
Indian actresses are goddesses on screen, the perfect fantasy for millions of Indian males. They're expected to be smart, engage in civil society and are constantly faced with the question of whether they'd reveal their bodies for their roles or not, whether they'd still be the ideal woman of the masses. DW Women Talk Blogger Roma Rajpal spoke with Indian actress Swara Bhaskar.
A true fairytale
Roma Rajpal documents an extraordinary incident that happened to her a couple of months back – a real life event that reinstated her faith in love and the idea that fairy tales can also come true!
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Editorial: “To dress or to undress?”
"Slutwalk" programmes are an attempt to sensitize men towards their female contemporaries
Sherlyn Chopra is the first Indian woman to feature in Playboy. The Indian media is choc-a-bloc with news about the model, her life and challenges, the hardships she faced and the accolades she won after she was chosen to “decorate” the pages of Playboy. The media in India obviously knows that this will generate a lot of interest, and it has. Until now, Indian newspapers and magazines have been trying to create the impression that they are simply presenting the “facts” as they are. Strangely enough, in a country which has seen a couple of shocking incidents of crime against women in the past few weeks, nobody has commented on the social impact of Sherlyn’s “contribution” to Playboy or that of other scantily clad stars.
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Blogs in the competition
Tanushree Sharma Sandhu talks about a funny experience at school. A fan of Bollywood movies, Tanushree actually believed one song had the answer to her geography lessons!
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