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Barbie

Woman of Substance

Nandini Nair

The return of Demi Moore

The Pink Pantheon

The anarchic feminism of Barbie

Oppenheimer Beats Barbie in India. Why?

Oppenheimer was an event, much like a FIFA World Cup or the Olympics, which cuts across cultures and classes. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, with its close identification with American girlhood in a pink paradise, did not have the same resonance in India, where the Mattel doll has never been too popular

Confessions of a wedding industry professional

“Weight issues aside, people don’t even want a girl with an uneven skin tone or bad hair. They want Barbie lookalikes”

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