{"id":65333,"date":"2024-07-03T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/jul\/03\/bollywood-indian-women-social-status-researcher-shah-rukh-khan"},"modified":"2024-07-03T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T05:00:02","slug":"what-does-a-bollywood-star-have-to-do-with-indian-womens-wellbeing-everything-shrayana-bhattacharya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65333","title":{"rendered":"What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women\u2019s wellbeing? Everything | Shrayana Bhattacharya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In India being a female fan of Shah Rukh Khan is not just about a love of film \u2013 it\u2019s a form of resistance against restrictive gender norms <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/feb\/04\/pathaan-shah-rukh-khan-bollywood-out-of-doldrums\">Shah Rukh Khan<\/a> may be an Indian cinematic legend and star of record-breaking Bollywood blockbusters but he is not someone you would expect to appear in socioeconomic studies. And yet, for almost two decades, the actor has been central to my research into the economic lives of ordinary Indian women.<\/p>\n<p>It started in 2006, when as a research assistant for a project with the Institute of Social Studies Trust and the Self Employed Women\u2019s Association, a trade union. My job involved surveying home-based workers \u2013 women who made incense sticks and garments at home for less than the minimum wage \u2013 in a poor area of Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<p>Shrayana Bhattacharya is an economist and author<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/jul\/03\/bollywood-indian-women-social-status-researcher-shah-rukh-khan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India being a female fan of Shah Rukh Khan is not just about a love of film \u2013 it\u2019s a form of resistance against restrictive gender norms Shah Rukh Khan may be an Indian cinematic legend and star of record-breaking Bollywood blockbusters but he is no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,71,847,69,1453,646,59,62,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-culture","category-employment","category-film","category-garment-workers","category-gender","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65334,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65333\/revisions\/65334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}