Between the Lines: The Truth About Celebrity Autobiography 

What happens when someone who’s spent their entire career performing decides to write about their own life? Before Instagram, before personal branding, and before “curated authenticity” became part of our vocabulary, we read autobiographies. This episode, featuring Ms. Meghna Gangadharan, dives into the autobiographies Indian actresses, more specifically - Hansa Wadkar, Zohra Segal, and Madhur Jaffrey - to explore how they documented themselves on the page. We discuss how these women used their autobiographies not as honest confessions, but as carefully crafted performances of selfhood, managing public image while navigating the moral scrutiny faced by actresses in 20th-century India. We invite you to a thought-provoking conversation about celebrity, gender, authenticity, and the stories we tell about ourselves.