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Thursday, September 25, 2025
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Topic: Bollywood

प्रियंका, पेंग्विन एनुअल लेक्चर और फिल्मी जगत में यौन उत्पीड़न का सवाल

क्या साहित्य वाले इस बार ‘बॉलीवुडीकृत’ हो गया है, क्योंकि प्रियंका चोपड़ा ने साल का पेंग्विन वार्षिक लेक्चर दिया? जवाब हैः क्या अछूता है?

To be a true leader, Priyanka Chopra must speak about sexual harassment in Bollywood and abroad

Has the literature circuit been Bollywoodised with Priyanka Chopra delivering the Penguin Annual Lecture this year? The answer is: what hasn’t?

Stop Bollywood music if you really want to save children from indecent content

If the intent is to not expose children to sex related content, most popular Bollywood music and many prime time soap operas should face the axe first.

The deafening silence of feminists in the Padmavati fracas

Women’s groups have protested against ‘love jihad’ and honour killings, but are strangely silent about the unfettered glorification of ‘jauhar’ in Padmavati.

The battle over Padmavati is pointless, but a win-win for all its participants

For the Hindu Right, the controversy over the film keeps the akhand jyoti of Hindu-Muslim conflict burning at a time when election season is beginning to pick up.

Talk Point: Should concerns of a particular community come in the way of Padmavati’s release?

The debate around the historical accuracy of fictional cinema like Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming film Padmavati raises critical questions, once again, about barring art for hurting ‘public sentiment’.

Talk Point: If you make a period film, it is important to value sentiments

The movie, I believe, has factual mistakes. They can actively become a part of historical narratives like Jodha Akbar and Mughal-e-azam.

Talk Point: Sacrifice of Padmavati is a virtue that must not be made the subject of entertainment

I firmly believe that the movie Padmavati must be banned. It insults the character of a woman who has been viewed a great example of sacrifice

Talk Point: Even if it portrays Rajputs and Padmavati through a novel gaze, the film should be allowed

If we were to ban films based on concerns of communities, we'd probably never be able to tell the many "truths" that exist simultaneously.

Talk Point: Anger over ‘Padmavati’ has to be placed in context of popular memory & public history

Rani Padmini's sacrifice elevated her to the status of a goddess in popular perceptions. And hence the veneration by all, and not just by her fellow Rajputs.

On Camera

‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.