Queer Cinema
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Film flashback: ‘Fire’ was the first Indian film to bring women in love out of the shadows
Before ‘Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga’, Deepa Mehta’s ‘Fire’ explored the love between two women.
Shohini Ghosh
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How the Oscar-nominated comedy ‘The Favourite’ puts lesbianism at the centre stage
Yorgos Lanthimos’s period drama about Queen Anne has been nominated for 10 Oscars, including for Best Actress for Olivia Colman.
Mary Harrod, The Conversation
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In ‘Signature Move’ film, queer identity, wrestling, secrets and Shabana Azmi for a mother
Actor and writer Fawzia Mirza stars alongside the thespian in the inaugural film at the Kashish queer festival in Mumbai.
Sruthi Ganapathy Raman
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Why are Sikhs abroad more pro-Khalistan than community members living in India?
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Kalakshetra abuse controversy should force a rethink of power hierarchies in ‘classical’ dance world
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The dark side of wind energy along Gujarat’s coast
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Noida: Namaz disrupted inside housing complex after Hindu residents raise objections
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Is ‘glass skin’ achievable? A dermatologist answers this and other skincare questions in a new book
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The debate over whether Elsa from ‘Frozen’ is gay is far more complex than we realise
The campaign to introduce queer characters in Disney films is a microcosm of the greater churn convulsing Hollywood.
Vikram Johri
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‘Desert Hearts’, the 1985 film about lesbian awakening that gives ‘Carol’ a run for its money
Director Donna Deitch wanted to make a movie ‘that didn’t end in a suicide or two suicides or a bisexual triangle’.
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, The Conversation
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‘Kapoor & Sons’, ‘Aligarh’ and the debt they owe to ‘Fire’
Twenty years after Deepa Mehta’s seminal movie, Bollywood is finally, but gingerly, making gay men protagonists.
Vikram Johri
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Watch: Trapped miners rescued from collapsed gold mine in Congo as onlookers cheer in relief
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