Tara Bhatnagar

@tara_bhatnagar
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'In all the years I’ve worked on set, not once has my quest for a ‘women-only’ washroom been successful. In the midst of Covid-19, as the film industry gears up to resume production in India, it’s safe to say that the lack of segregated washrooms on sets still remains an issue. And the ones who bear the brunt of it are women.'

(Written originally for The Grit News)

https://tarabhatnagar.net/2020/08/31/set-stories-2-to-pee-or-not-to-pee/

Set Stories #2: To Pee or Not To Pee

Unfinished Business

TW: Suicide, Mental health.

If we're really going to have a conversation about mental health in the film industry, let's start by including everyone who works on film sets. Let’s check our own behaviour and call out the bullies.

https://tarabhatnagar.net/2020/06/16/set-stories-1-lets-talk/

Set Stories #1: Let’s Talk!

Unfinished Business
@musafir It’s just overwhelming ❤️

Day 50 at Shaheen Bagh! ❤️

#rejectcaa #rejectnrc #rejectnpr

Scenes from a Protest. Jansangharsh at Jantar Mantar, Delhi. 29.1.20.

#rejectcaa
#rejectnrc
#rejectnpr

This Republic Day, make some time and read my aunt, Minna Kabir’s reflections on Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’. I promise, it will be worth your while. 😊

https://tarabhatnagar.net/2020/01/25/reflections-on-a-poem/

#RahindranathTagore #RepublicDayIndia  #RepublicDay2020

Reflections on a Poem

Unfinished Business
@Vishsai I put it up again. I clicked on the image and it went to the site. Thank you though! 🤗🤗
@musafir Right back at you. 🤗 We will need to realign our hope in systems a little bit and that’s okay. Rest. To protest.

https://wp.me/p2tDVC-5d

‘No CAA. No NRC’

Wrote a poem dedicated to all the friends I’ve lost and found through this movement against the CAA_NRC_NPR.

#RejectCAA_NRC_NPR

NO CAA. NO NRC.

To a former friend,  The proud ‘Sanghi’, We always knew, We wouldn’t agree, You enjoyed the divide, I favoured the free Your rabid hate, Now a reality, But, we’ll learn to exist, You and me. (…

@Vishsai I don’t know what is happening :/ Let me try again.