Since Bollywood's earliest days, women have played a part in its success, both in front of the camera and away from it. It has taken more than half a century fo

Blurb: Since Bollywood's earliest days, women have played a part in its success, both in front of the camera and away from it. Yet it has taken more than half a

This book is a comprehensive anthology comprising essays on women film directors, producers and screenwriters from Bollywood, or the popular Hindi film industry

As India approaches its seventieth year of Independence, its people continue to grapple with multiple discourses: a few from the left, a considerable sum from t

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might