Annie Zaidi

Filmy music often ‘borrows’ heavily from Urdu and Hindi classics, and folk music.

A gauntlet has been thrown in front of Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh.

He represents both an ideal and a dilemma for scribes of the day.

By refusing to take up the concerns of its own community seriously, it has ceded both moral and legal ground.

A person who does not get to choose her/his sexual mate is a slave.

All these stories are told and retold, and enacted and reviewed every day, everywhere.

Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's 'If'.

I am judging you as I judge all politicians - through statements and silences, through action and inaction.

The real battle is to correct labour and wage imbalances. Fight for inheritance and your right to work.

If you want casual sex, do not approach women on your team.

It would take five minutes and would reassure a billion people.

If 'our culture' cannot cope with our body then the culture needs to take a good, hard look at itself.

[Satire] If there is no case, no evidence, the person will ultimately go home.

To improve air quality, focus on reducing cars but do stand up for non-polluting citizens also.

There is violent crime everywhere in the country.

You'll blend into the landscape as easily as if you lived there.

It was told mainly by women who survived the massacre of one branch of Prophet Muhammad's family.

It is one's way of saying: Think! Think of injustices in the past and present.

When I thought of women, I thought of them as helpers of the cause rather than being their own cause.

People like to draw comparisons, I believe we are products of conditioning.

To insist on spousal rights, regardless of spousal desire, is a short-sighted and self-defeating enterprise.

I really hope the campaign of Jamia Millia Islamia and Delhi University students displaying feminist messages on sanitary napkins spreads.

As long as you can believe in India and the Constitution, there is reason to celebrate.

I was struggling to just 'be' in a public space rather than 'occupy' it.

Festivals are intended to mark the goodness, the richness, and the sweetness of life. If the annual treat becomes an every-other-day habit, then how are we celebrating?

Dear Santa, Modi government really likes you, and so do we.