Two weeks is a relatively short time. Yet, a lot can transpire in two weeks. When Phule was earlier set to be released on April 11, it was just another biopic that showed some promise in its trailer.

But the show was packed, and people clapped at all the right moments. A mother with her son beside me declared the film to be good as the credits rolled. The spectators evidently enjoyed the ...

The film, Phule, not only visibilised the age-old tensions of caste and gender but also laid open the matrix that these divisive structures share with education. The wounds that Jyotiba and Savitribai ...

Savitribai Phule was a poet, social reformer, and one of the first female educators in India. In Maharashtra, she collaborated with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, to significantly advance women's rights ...