I was reminded of my ‘shelf value’: female artistes on Hema Committee reckoning

The Indian film industry is patriarchal, exploitative and needs a radical reset for the safety and sanity of female professionals engaged in the cinematic arts.

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Hema Committee Report: A Golden Opportunity to Create Safe Workplaces for Women in All Film Industries

The Hema Committee report has caused a whirlwind in Malayalam cinema and society, but if the report is to bring about lasting change, it must

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Editor’s Note | Vaishna Roy Writes: Hema Committee Report a Defining Moment in India’s Mass Feminist Awakening

Writing in this issue of Frontline, the feminist scholar J. Devika says: “Malayalam cinema has been historically structured by feudal funding and practices, and women artistes were

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INTERVIEW | ‘It Cannot Get Dirtier, It Can Only Get Cleaner’: Bina Paul on Hema Committee Report Fallout

INTERVIEW | It cannot get dirtier, it can only get cleaner: Bina Paul Bina Paul, the National Award-winning editor and founding member of Women in

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WCC flags attempt to ‘jeopardise’ privacy of women who testified before Hema Committee

WCC has alerted Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of what it termed as an attempt to expose the identity and jeopardise the privacy of women

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‘It Cannot Get Dirtier, It Can Only Get Cleaner’: Beena Paul on Outcome of Hema Committee Report

The Justice Hema Committee report released in August shed light on the widespread and persistent nature of sexual harassment in the Malayalam film industry. The

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Controversy | Justice Hema Committee Report Reveals Harassment Female Actors Face in Malayalam Film Industry

The much-awaited report of the Justice Hema Committee, the government-appointed panel in 2019 that studied issues faced by women in the Malayalam film industry, comprises

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