Neel

Sunflowers on a Frosty Morning
A close-up photograph of a sunflower with leaves and a blue sky in the background.

A few days ago, in a telephonic conversation with my mother, I was made aware of the inadequacies of my…

By Neel
September 19, 2022
Sunflowers on a Frosty Morning
दुनिया एक रंगमंच है
तीन लोगों की छाया-आकृतियाँ एक लाल, रोशन पर्दे के सामने एक दूसरे से कुछ दूरी पर अलग-अलग मुद्राओं में खड़ी हैं।

पहले जिन स्त्रीसुलभ व्यवहारों के कारण मुझमें वो मेएलीपन दिखाई देता था, अब वो मेरे जीवन का हिस्सा बन चुका है। वह अब उन सब कपड़ों में जो मैं पहनती हूँ, जिस अंदाज़ में मैं चलती, सोचती और बात करती हूँ या लोक चर्चाओं में भाग लेती हूँ, परिलक्षित होता है।

By Neel
March 1, 2022
दुनिया एक रंगमंच है
Becoming a Womxn: An Autobiography on Pleasure

This article was originally published here. The canvas of a city is experiential – from the walls and windows that…

By Neel
January 3, 2022
Becoming a Womxn: An Autobiography on Pleasure
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World
Wall-art of a face till the bridge of the nose. The face is coloured in peach, grey, and shades of blue. The eyes, green, are lined in black and have spots of yellow, brown, and blue colour around them. Under the left eye, there are yellow dots. The hair is streaked with purple and blue.

The virtual world allows me to challenge the hold of patriarchy on my ‘effeminate’ body; in a sense, it allows me to evade the policing of desire that my body shares with another, its flows and slippages, the messy and the unkempt. While virtual sex offers a window to revisit the sensual, it is also not immune to limitations and insecurities.

By Neel
June 15, 2021
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World
All the World’s a Stage
तीन लोगों की छाया-आकृतियाँ एक लाल, रोशन पर्दे के सामने एक दूसरे से कुछ दूरी पर अलग-अलग मुद्राओं में खड़ी हैं।

The ways I look at femininity have evolved as I have. Growing up in a space driven by dance and…

By Neel
December 15, 2020
All the World’s a Stage
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World

The virtual world allows me to challenge the hold of patriarchy on my ‘effeminate’ body; in a sense, it allows me to evade the policing of desire that my body shares with another, its flows and slippages, the messy and the unkempt.

By Neel
August 14, 2020
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World
Becoming a Womxn: An Autobiography on Pleasure
A sculpture of a woman leaning downwards

Pleasure, in the context of the private, defines the parlance of sexual satisfaction. As a womxn, the private is also the public: how I present and play with my gender, is a way of seeking validation of who I am.

By Neel
February 17, 2020
Becoming a Womxn: An Autobiography on Pleasure