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Pooja Pillai
Pooja Pillai is a Special Correspondent working with The Indian Express.
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Wrestling federation chief’s resignation: The spark lit by MeToo is hard to extinguish
January 21,2023 19:46:10 PM
Pooja Pillai writes: Each little victory matters in the uncertain, halting progress of the fight against sexual harassment in the workplace
Sat, Jan 21, 2023
New York Film Critics Circle awards S S Rajamouli Best Director: Why Western critics love action films like RRRPremium Story
December 31,2022 18:22:26 PM
Whether or not the film revolutionises the genre, it marks out Rajamouli as a director with a penchant for stylised action, unafraid to look outrageous or ridiculous.
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
Critical perspectives from a master of the moviesPremium Story
December 24,2022 04:13:28 AM
Without doubt, Tarantino’s critical perspective is wider and more generous in its scope than most, taking in performances and movies that were considered oddities or failures, but in which he finds gems to mine.
Sat, Dec 24, 2022
Explained Books | Women and the conservative Right: an analysis
November 26,2022 05:33:54 AM
The answer to the question posed by the book Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism — why women advance the agenda of the Hindu right despite its conservative views on gender — is complex.
Sat, Nov 26, 2022
Happy birthday, Shah Rukh Khan is 57 years newSign In to read
November 02,2022 17:38:49 PM
In a career full of risks and reinventions, Khan’s latest gamble is becoming an action movie star with Pathaan
Wed, Nov 02, 2022
Fan in the hotel room: What the Virat Kohli video tells us about privacy in modern timesSign In to read
October 31,2022 19:46:18 PM
The ordinariness of what is on view is a comment on the threat an intrusive camera poses to anyone of us
Mon, Oct 31, 2022
Phyllida Jay’s ‘Inspired By India’ explores the many ways Indian design aesthetics determined the course of Western fashionSign In to read
October 08,2022 18:47:58 PM
From Marilyn Monroe’s iconic white bias-cut dress to Kashmiri shawls and jodhpurs, the book raises important questions about the explicit and unconscious influences that India exerted on the global imagination
Mon, Oct 10, 2022
Politics and power: A short history of chairs in IndiaSign In to read
October 08,2022 04:05:35 AM
Over the centuries, the seat in India has taken many forms, shapes and styles. It begins with the stark simplicity of the patlo or palakka and the mooda (low stool) or charpai (woven cot), which continue to serve as fresh inspiration for designers in the 21st century.
Sat, Oct 08, 2022
Marilyn Monroe in Blonde: The body on the bedSign In to read
October 02,2022 12:42:01 PM
While it claims to be more, the Netflix film reduces the Hollywood legend to a sexual and sexualised object
Wed, Oct 05, 2022
Succession, Squid Game, White Lotus — in capitalism, everyone losesSign In to read
September 14,2022 12:48:11 PM
Pooja Pillai writes: The moral of the story from this year's Emmy winners: The great, big capitalist machine might make you all the money in the world but you won’t be any happier than the gig worker.
Thu, Sep 15, 2022
What Kerala High Court needs to take on board: Marriage and its place in society are not unchangingSign In to read
September 02,2022 16:45:49 PM
Pooja Pillai writes: The idea of family has expanded to include live-in relationships and other kinds of arrangements, including non-romantic ones, that work better for the individuals concerned
Fri, Sep 02, 2022
For Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, a lesson on dogs and kindnessSign In to read
August 24,2022 18:27:21 PM
Pooja Pillai writes: Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni's comment comparing agitating farmers to barking dogs shows he knows nothing about both
Wed, Aug 24, 2022
Explained Books: Every woman in the story, her cross to carrySign In to read
August 13,2022 04:58:53 AM
The story of Nilanjana Bhowmick’s mother aptly captures the burden that the author has undertaken to explore and describe in this book.
Sat, Aug 13, 2022
RRR is a potboiler, not a history lessonPremium Story
July 22,2022 19:44:33 PM
Pooja Pillai writes: Demanding that a mainstream entertainer also be historically accurate is a fool’s game
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
Explained: How ‘filter kaapi’ became South India’s favourite beveragePremium Story
July 17,2022 14:45:03 PM
Whether in Mylapore, Chennai or Matunga, Mumbai, the fragrance of freshly-roasted beans, with their promise of a hot, bracing shot of the sweet, milky coffee, has long defined a certain, typically South Indian style of coffee drinking experience.
Tue, Jul 19, 2022
Explained Books: In mirror of the Past, aspects of the PresentPremium Story
July 16,2022 04:00:53 AM
As Ruth Vanita demonstrates in her new book, The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna and Species, a scrupulous reading of India’s ancient texts can reveal that there is a greater continuity in our moral and ethical preoccupations than many of us suspect.
Thu, Jul 28, 2022
In Chamor, Sheba Jose looks at the world through a child’s eyesPremium Story
June 18,2022 12:00:33 PM
At the centre of Jose’s debut novel is a narrator who tries to make sense of a world that changes and bewilders her
Sat, Jun 18, 2022
How Karan Johar ‘queered’ the Bollywood love storyPremium Story
May 27,2022 17:12:13 PM
Pooja Pillai writes: At 50, while making an action film would be enough of a challenge to give Johar the creative shakeup he seems to feel he needs, a full-length queer romance would be an even bigger one.
Mon, May 30, 2022
Seema Chishti’s new book, on her parents’ interfaith marriage, is a compendium of notes from another IndiaPremium Story
May 21,2022 14:00:51 PM
In 'Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes from a Khichdi Family', interfaith romances, shared dreams and confluence of hand-me-down recipes present a portrait of a country now found only in sepia prints
Sat, May 21, 2022
Nobody really knew Anthony Bourdain. And that’s alrightPremium Story
April 23,2022 16:30:34 PM
The biography of the late Anthony Bourdain explores the legacy of the popular chef through the narratives of friends and family
Sat, Apr 23, 2022
Food, freedom and the New India projectPremium Story
April 07,2022 04:01:11 AM
Pooja Pillai writes: As recent events show, ideas about who belongs and who doesn’t often come down to food
Thu, Apr 07, 2022
What stays buried: In KR Meera’s Qabar, long-suppressed desires and truths are unearthedPremium Story
March 19,2022 11:00:50 AM
Translated from the Malayalam by Nisha Susan, the novella offers a glimpse of the sense of liberation that comes with finally confronting a long-buried truth
Thu, Mar 17, 2022
Motherhood question: No, I’d rather notPremium Story
January 16,2022 03:50:16 AM
🔴 Personally, I believe women shouldn’t even attempt to explain. What we choose to do with our bodies, our time and our resources is nobody’s business but our own.
Sun, Jan 16, 2022
Waiter, I need a fly in my soupPremium Story
January 11,2022 06:57:40 AM
Are insects the future of food? Entomophagy could be an essential element of global food security in the near future and save the planet
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
The bindi business: no full stopsPremium Story
November 07,2021 03:50:22 AM
To those of us who think of the bindi as an optional accessory, rather than an indispensable part of festive fashion, the outrage was bewildering: since when has the weight of Diwali celebration rested so heavily on a single dot on the forehead?
Mon, Nov 08, 2021