This piece is a musical thread linking two of my abiding areas of interest: women’s work and Hindi film songs. Through my research I have been arguing that blanket assertions such as “Indian ...

Characters in Hindi ... women to sparrows and herself to a bulbul. Questionable analogies aside, it is interesting to examine how male and female characters sing about themselves in Hindi film songs.

Women’s Day 2020 ... and that’s where the beauty lies. English Vinglish, Mughal-e-Azam and Piku, all gave us some of the best female characters of Hindi films. On Women’s Day, we decided ...