Shikha Aleya
Issue In Focus: The Conversations We Don’t Have
A long, long time ago, in a room far, far away, I remember playing at being a mythological hero I…
By Shikha Aleya
February 1, 2016
…‘Raised on These Jokes’…
“Tell me something,” the 15-year-old asked her mother, “what is it like the first time?” “You, in your age and…
By Shikha Aleya
January 4, 2016
Of Socks and Sexuality
I grew up with a book cupboard where Paul Gallico’s Love of Seven Dolls rubbed shoulders with Germain Greer’s The…
By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2015
इन्टरनेट पर परिवार और यौनिकता : एक रिव्यु
यह मेरी इन्टरनेट पर भारतीय परिवारों द्वारा और ‘परिवार और यौनिकता’ विषय पर पोस्ट की जाने वाली सामग्री को पढ़…
By Shikha Aleya
October 17, 2015
A Chicken Tikka Roll For Real Men
Bakasura Chicken Tikka Roll. 100% Wholesome. Made for Real Men. In the home delivery menu card of a local restaurant,…
By Shikha Aleya
October 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: This Thing We Call Freedom
Chandra Deo Singh, a name not necessarily familiar to many of us, spent time in prison in1945 for taking part…
By Shikha Aleya
August 1, 2015
Interview: Bishakha Datta on the Brave New (Digital) World
Bishakha Datta is an Indian filmmaker, activist and a former journalist. She runs Point of View, a Mumbai based non-profit,…
By Shikha Aleya
Somebody Else’s Dolly
The body is our tangible hacker of the world. It experiences the world and the world experiences it. I do…
By Shikha Aleya
June 1, 2015
Review: Family and Sexuality on the Internet
I am attempting to review public conversation for and by the Indian family on Family and Sexuality on the Internet….
By Shikha Aleya
May 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists
The rabbit and the monster is a story about a baby rabbit all alone in a jungle trying to escape…
By Shikha Aleya
Issue in Focus: Women’s Sexuality is a Troubling Thing
… and the Award goes to… … Vasilyev’s wife … … for having birthed the maximum number of children. I…
By Shikha Aleya
March 1, 2015
February 1, 2015
CSE and Online Hot Bath Scenes
No matter how many optional ways I’ve considered for starting this piece, I keep returning to ‘hot’ and ‘masala’. I’ve…
By Shikha Aleya
February 1, 2015
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions
… the heroine an amputee on a microprocessor controlled prosthetic leg with a hydraulic foot and ankle system raises her…
By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2014