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Of Brands, Bralettes and Backtracking

Of Brands, Bralettes and Backtracking

In the last week of August, jewellery brand GIVA launched its Raksha Bandhan campaign featuring actor Kriti Sanon. What followed was outrage—mainly over the clothes Kriti was seen wearing. GIVA pulled the ad from all media, saying it did not wish to hurt people’s sentiments. But Kriti had already emerged as the unlikely hero of the controversy before GIVA’s decision.

Bengali protest songs, past and present

Bengali protest songs, past and present

By Shrabonti Bagchi Growing up in a Bengali household in the 1980s, cassette tapes were as essential a part of ‘learning about culture’ as bound volumes of Tagore’s works and novels by Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay and Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay – many of them wedding...