1. Politics, Gender-Identity and Media Representation
... led to physical brawls and assaults. She is a political maverick and a firebrand orator. Her mass appeal is buttressed by her humble lifestyle. She lives in a tiled, single-story, three-room house in a dingy lane close to the Kalighat temple in South Kolkata, and she wears a very simple attire – cotton saris, jhola bags and cheap hawai chappal. Mamata Banerjee is a woman ... of address changed. They are – Ammu (her childhood name), Akka (sister), Anni (Sister-in-law), and Amma (mother). The Ammu phase of Jayalalitha is associated with her early glamour doll role of a "sex goddess". ...
- Word Count: 8108
- Approx Pages: 32
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate