This week, we ask why everyone hates on the Indian aunty, and whether the way she's portrayed in pop culture pits women against each other.

Edited by: Neha Shekhawat
Presented by: Anahita Sachdev
Research: Quoyina Ghosh
Produced by: Shrishti Malhotra
Creative Supervisor: Karla Bookman

Want to learn more about the research in this video? Read this:

Chakravarti, Uma. "Conceptualising Brahmanical patriarchy in early India: Gender, caste, class and state." Economic and Political Weekly (1993): 579-585.

Tatar, Maria. Off with their heads!: Fairy tales and the culture of childhood. Princeton University Press, 1993.

Tincknell, Estella. "Monstrous Aunties: the Rabelaisian older Asian woman in British cinema and television comedy." Feminist Media Studies 20, no. 1 (2020): 135-150.


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