Gail and Bharat: Somnath Waghmare's tale of love, resistance, and radical imagination

Khan, Ruhi ORCID: 0009-0005-5625-6296, Banaji, Shakuntala ORCID: 0000-0002-9233-247X and Dhanda, Meena (2025) Gail and Bharat: Somnath Waghmare's tale of love, resistance, and radical imagination. Media@LSE (04 Nov 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Feminist scholar and activist Gail Omvedt’s legacy endures – not just in her writings, but in every act of courage that defies the logic of caste. Dr Ruhi Khan, Professor Shakuntala Banaji and Professor Meena Dhanda reflect on Somnath Waghmare’s film Gail and Bharat, which ensures that Omvedt’s story, beautifully entwined with that of her activist husband Bharat Patankar, remains part of India’s collective memory.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Gender Studies Media and Communications
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2026 13:39
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2026 10:00
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130561

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