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Ray was, as most critics agree, is a ‘global Bengali’. Often called as “the last glorious representative of the Bengal renaissance”, Ray had said in his 1989 interview with Pierre Andre Boutang that he had developed a Bengali style of filmmaking that was exclusively Bengali and not Indian. In his films, we see smooth transitions from Indian classical music to Indian folk music and Western classical music.
Many emerging Indian companies understood that competition was extreme within and without and gauged that the ‘Swadeshi’ tag could be used to their advantage to effectively tale on foreign products. And who better to strengthen their brand proposition than the country’s cultural ambassador, the perfect face for a brand that oozes Indian pride and world-class quality?
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From disrupted hormone replacement therapy and widespread job losses to gender discrimination in Covid19 testing centres, transgender Indians have been among the worst-hit victims of the pandemic. A portrait of a marginalised community pushed further into the shadows.
He was, perhaps, one of the most reliable links that Bengal and India had to the counter-culture movements across America and Europe.
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Interview: 'The Raj Kundra Episode Is a Distraction from Pegasus'
In India, a country where the sports fraternity functions in an unorganised environment, questions about the athlete’s psychological health, especially when participating in big-ticket events, is a mirage.
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“I think that after he is released (from jail), Roddur Roy should stand up on a table in the Coffee House and proudly speak the language of the uncivilised."
“By robbing people of the opportunity to get the sex education they deserve, and the autonomy over their own bodies that they could have achieved"
At different points in queer history, the rainbow flag has influenced the use of loud colours, garish make-up, and kinky leather attire that have been used as means to stand out, challenge, and resist the blanket enforcement of sexuality and gendered codes of colour and fashion.
From the 1970s’ gun-slinging, hip-flask alcoholics coming home to despairing mothers and anxious girlfriends to today’s portrayal of women speaking out against a single slap, there has been a sea change as far as the portrayal of women is concerned.
Malay Roychoudhury, one of the co-founders of the 1960s' Hungryalist literary movement, was a notorious cocktail of confessional verse that continually flouted norms and flirted with danger.
Glorification of beauty that often adheres to western standards leads to a huge section of insecure and neglected aspirants.
Current Management is among the first such initiative in Asia that aims to represent only queer models and artistes
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