Sukanya Shaji

Cinema has rarely allowed women the complexity of being human. Female characters are most often expected to be virtuous, predictable, and ideal. Even when women are placed at the centre of the narrative, few and far as they are, the contradictions are neatly ironed out into palatable ideas of femininity.

A father who works as an autorickshaw driver walks into his home carrying a box of sweets. His daughter asks what the occasion is. The answer is not a birthday, a festival or a family celebration. It is that the Karnataka government has completed 100 days in office.

Filmmaker Pankaj Rishi Kumar's To Die A Frenchman was screened in Bengaluru on September 15 at the Bangalore International Centre (BIC), followed by a conversation between the director and author Ramjee Chandran.

Death is meant to be an exit, a full stop to the world's qualms with a person. But on the internet, everything is up for scrutiny, whether or not the person can defend themselves anymore.

The Supreme Court has ordered a de novo investigation into the 2012 rape and murder of 17-year-old Sowjanya in Karnataka's Ujire, questioning why key leads were not pursued by the three agencies — local police, CID and CBI– that investigated the case. The apex court also pointed to DNA evidence that can still be used to identify the perpetrators.

The child sexual assault case involving Gem Granites owner R Veeramani is taking a fresh twist as it emerges that the Chennai police were alerted to the crime a

As actor Parvathy Thiruvothu joins us over a call from London, where she's shooting for a “film that shall not be named”, it becomes clear that this interview is going to traverse three languages. While Malayalam and English may be obvious, she sneaks in a sentence or two in Hindi as she speaks to a cab driver as she figures her way to a small Chinese place a friend recommended.

As actor Parvathy Thiruvothu joins us over a call from London, where she’s shooting for a “film that shall not be named”, it becomes clear that this interview i

Revealing severe injuries on her body was the only way a 24-year-old woman from Kerala's Neendakara could convince those back home that all the ‘horrible stories' they heard about her were untrue. Returning home from her husband in Saudi Arabia on September 30, the woman alleged weeks of physical abuse, including stabbing and whipping at his hands, during which she was forced to record false and obscene narrations about herself that he would send to everyone at home. Hearing her voice, even her family was shocked, not knowing what to believe; the woman told TNM from her home in Kollam, where she is recuperating.

A woman has sent a legal notice to actor Balu Varghese seeking a written undertaking and apology for alleged sexual misbehaviour at a private gathering. The notice, which details the incident, states that the alleged act constitutes a serious violation of bodily autonomy, dignity, privacy and personal security.