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A woman laborer watches television inside her house at the compound of a brick factory at Libbar Hari in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.

Have things improved for women in India’s ads? A bit.

May 15, 2015Lifestyle

The only ads I can’t avoid are the ones I see in the movie theatres. Almost all films screened in India have a forced intermission halfway through so you can load up on snacks — during which ads play nonstop. Once in a while there will be something that’s not hideously insulting.