Harshita Mishra

Oct 2, 2024 | ndtv.com | Harshita Mishra

Not too many can claim that how well they do their job is the immediate difference between whether someone lives or dies. Doctors, yes. Firefighters, yes. Lifeguards, yes. Twenty-four-year-old Aliah Rupawalla was none of these. And yet, an evening, she found herself being the only witness as one 50-something Ashwin tottered on the edge of the terrace of one of the thousands of high-rises that make up Mumbai and its abiding loneliness.

Sep 24, 2024 | ndtv.com | Harshita Mishra |Vasudha Venugopal |Mayank Mishra

Getting shortlisted for an Oscar is a significant milestone for the well-crafted movie Laapataa Ladies from Aamir Khan Productions. It's a delightful film, and we have yet to encounter anyone who has watched it and didn't enjoy it. The theme is engaging, the songs are top-notch, and all the characters are developed with classic cinematic finesse. However, does it differ from other movies that reinforce prevalent stereotypes about Indian women? Are Indian women really as lachaar as depicted?

Apr 21, 2024 | ndtv.com | Harshita Mishra

(The following is an excerpt from 'Modi 3.0: Bigger, Higher, Stronger' by Pradeep Bhandari. Published with the permission of Om Books International. Subheadings added by NDTV for ease of reading)Narendra Modi is more than a leader. He is a phenomenon. Look at Mamata Banerjee, for example, her appeal is limited to the Bengali-speaking population in Bengal and she has not been able to evolve her party's graph beyond the state's borders. Or M.K. Stalin, who simply cannot attract votes out of Tamil Nadu.

Mar 8, 2024 | ndtv.com | Harshita Mishra

When I began writing this essay, I had been reading Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything. The date of its publication, on International Women's Day, was an added irony. When Jaffe's book came out 66 years ago, about a decade after Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the relationship between women and work was rarely discussed, if at all.