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Madhureeta Anand

Madhureeta Anand

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Film Director. Director of Kajarya. Founder of the Digital Film Festival - New Delhi, occassional writer, a mom and lover of life.

By Madhureeta Anand

Armed men, friendly cops, underfed cows: My visit to a Haryana gau rakshak office

‘We were really hurt when Modi said we were goondas, we are working with the administration’.

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I met a gau rakhshak who is not afraid of Modi

I carried home the two encounters with the predators and the victims.

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I'm a woman and I made a web series about porn in India. This is what it was like

It's heartening to see so many men coming forward to support the campaign.

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What Bollywood needs to learn before giving dynasty lessons to Rahul Gandhi

Dynasties are of two kinds, one based on the gene pool and the other on fostered affiliations.

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The rape analogy Salman Khan's films make

Cinema in India has taken a huge leap, but there is one thing that remains the same – how women are treated on screen.

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We don't burn bras: 10 things feminists don't do

We know that people are so much more than their bodies.

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What men from Delhi's Mandaveli have to say about women's safety

The idea is not to reinvent power equations, but to think of power in a new way altogether.

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Bollywood must learn from Spotlight and the Oscars

Fine filmmaking combined with a strong social message creates winners.

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Indians must thank Modi sarkar and Hindutva for sedition

By being as anti-freedom as British Raj, they have forced the Indian to speak up and be counted.

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What does an artist make of a reviewer?

First-time directors, stung by criticism, end up at the beginner's block.

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How a Delhi brothel turns a shrine by the day

Lamps flicker and form soft shadows. The walls have pictures of Gods of all faiths.

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On Sadhvis and sex workers: Listen up, trolls

Abuse is part of the parlance of the troll Nazis, because none of them is really up for a debate.

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What do Sadhvis and sex workers have in common?

The toss-up between being goddesses and sluts is a frequent female dilemma that they personify. And yet, on a closer look, neither of them is either of those things.

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Why are men such suckers for sex?

Men have been led to believe they 'need' sex which makes them place it up there with life necessities, thereby adding the element of entitlement to have sex.

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2015: Indian cinema will see another golden era

Film-making is about living life and more than ever before audiences are looking for honesty in films.

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How Bollywood now defines the drunk, abusive woman giving a blow job sexy

Women centric films that Bollywood dishes out shows that cinema is essentially a male medium where objectifying women is the norm.

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