Bishakha Datta, Author at In Plainspeak

Bishakha Datta

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poster for the film 'blue is the warmest colour', which shows two young girls facing each other intimately

March 1, 2014

Reel Review: Blue Is The Warmest Color

There are many ways of looking at Blue is the Warmest Colour, last year’s French release about a love story…

By Bishakha Datta

December 1, 2014

Reel Review: Blue Is The Warmest Color

Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media

A cartoon illustration of a clitoris with a face drawn on it, the caption below it reads, 'making masturbation female friendly'

Five snippets from three months. In August, Indian actress Poonam Pandey dons a bikini for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge…

By Bishakha Datta

October 1, 2014

Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media

Issue In Focus: Body Image is a Mind Thing

Two photos of veteran actor Robert Redford - one of his youth and one of him at present day - beside each other

This is not a cautionary fable about censorship and its excesses, but an exploratory essay on body image, using breasts as a starting point.

By Bishakha Datta

May 1, 2014

Issue In Focus: Body Image is a Mind Thing

Illegally Adult: The Strange Case of Alisha Major

Black-and-white photo of Indian bharatnatyma dancer Rukmini Devi holding a mudra. She is wearing traditional dance clothing with flowers in her head, and jewellery on the forehead, ears, and neck. The image is from the chest up.

She was 17 when she was rescued from a dance bar. Now she’s 18 and she wants to go back. As an adult. And dance again. That’s what Alisha wrote in a letter to the Child Welfare Committee.
Alisha’s letter may be one of a kind. It doesn’t matter. It may even be a scam of sorts, in that she was pushed to write it. Doesn’t matter. What’s interesting is the jumble that it throws up, if you look at her choices through eyes that are not hers.

By Bishakha Datta

June 17, 2016

Illegally Adult: The Strange Case of Alisha Major