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The director-producer duo of Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar are a formidable team. They have produced a body of socially relevant content in both films as well as OTT streaming platforms.  This time they put their heft behind a solid web series that takes a long, hard look at class divide, caste discrimination, female oppression, misogyny, sexual abuse, and serial killing. Kagti co-directs this amazing series with Ruchika Oberoi. The setting is in rustic Rajasthan, in the small, fictitious town of Mandawa, where folks moan the birth of a female child, and wait for someone to take the girl off their hands as soon as she grows up. Girls are worse than cattle here, they are just burdens, plain and simple. Image source: Wikipedia Into this sordid scenario, comes a respectable college professor with a roving eye and a twisted mental make-up. The stage is set for a series of cleverly staged, carefully planned, meticulously carried out series of cold-blooded murders.  Yet, such is the s...

June 5 was World Environment Day. The world and its cousin pontificated at length on the need to save the earth. Everyone planted saplings, made token gestures, and vowed reduce carbon footprints with missionary zeal.  Today, its back to business. Vehicles spewing toxic fumes on the roads. ACs running all day and night, guzzling power. Plastic wrappers strewn on roads, choking drains and waterbodies. Use and throw bottles and containers being used without a second thought. Tons of wrapping paper and packaging used for e-commerce deliveries binned after opening. Waterbodies and green patches getting filled up to accommodate the bulging urban population. Trees and woods being wiped out to quench our requirements and greed. So, what use is celebrating a single day for thinking about our home - mother earth? At the end of the day, we humans think only of our own comfort and utility. Why bother about how things will be 20 years from now? Why think about other organisms sharing the earth...