Barbie

The Pink Pantheon

Nandini Nair

The anarchic feminism of Barbie

Oppenheimer Beats Barbie in India. Why?

Kaveree Bamzai

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