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Meena T Pillai
Meena is the director of the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Kerala. A Fulbright Fellow, her works include Women in Malayalam Cinema: Naturalising Gender Hierarchies.
Living an Art
25/06/2016Margi Sathi's autobiography Rangasree poignantly blends the life of an artist, snuffed in her prime, with the life of a dying art form. A riveting autobiography…
Leela: A Lost Chance to Shatter the Myth of Machismo
27/04/2016How do you translate a story of sex and sexuality into the medium of cinema? This was the general curiosity surrounding the making of Leela, part perceived,…
Choose Your Jeweler, Not Your Man: The Regressive World of Kerala Ads
31/03/2016An advertisement which seeks to 'succinctly' capture a young Malayalee girl's rite of passage into marriage, and in the process made me sit up in consternation,…
From God’s Own Country to Devil’s Dumpsite
11/02/2016Big, palatial houses. Opulence in concrete and brick. Cars that are traded by the day for bigger and better models. The average middle-class Malayalee seems…
A Super Hit That Exposes the Malayalee Mindset
18/01/2016Films are important cultural texts and echo the secret desires and fantasies, and the dominant ideologies and abiding passions that shape a society. But sometimes…