TARSHI Team

Interview – Alok Vaid-Menon
Gender non-conforming poet Alok Vaid Menon. They are dressed in a vibrant sleeveless dress, jewellery and makeup.
Interview – Alok Vaid-Menon

In an e-mail conversation with TARSHI, Alok Vaid-Menon talks about both performativity and poetic performance.
By TARSHI Team
September 4, 2018
Interview – Alok Vaid-Menon
Interview – Kiran Deshmukh
Meena Seshu squatting on the floor as an older woman sitting on the floor caresses her on the cheek. Several women stand around them, looking on. Seshu is wearing a purple kurta, and the older woman wears a yellow saree.
Interview – Kiran Deshmukh

किरण देशमुख वैम्प प्लस की अध्यक्ष हैं। हमने एचआईवी एवं यौनिकता के विषय पर किरण के साथ ईमेल के द्वारा…
By TARSHI Team
December 15, 2015
Interview – Kiran Deshmukh
Interview: A Conversation on the Personal and the Political with Queer Feminists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma
A Conversation on the Personal and the Political with Queer Feminists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma
Interview: A Conversation on the Personal and the Political with Queer Feminists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma

Delhi-based queer feminist activists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma recorded a conversation they had about their views around marriage. While both women maintain their stances of critique towards the institution of marriage, what they agree upon and investigate as their chat progresses is that marriage has a pull that even its staunchest opponents will have to acknowledge and attempt to understand.
By TARSHI Team
March 15, 2017
Interview: A Conversation on the Personal and the Political with Queer Feminists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma
Interview: Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani on Sexuality and Social Movements in Latin America
Interview: Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani on Sexuality and Social Movements in Latin America
November 1, 2015
Interview: Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani on Sexuality and Social Movements in Latin America
Interview: Debanuj DasGupta
Interview: Debanuj DasGupta
November 1, 2014
Interview: Debanuj DasGupta
Interview: Debanuj Dasgupta on Immigration Rights
Debanuj Dasgupta sitting on a chair, speaking something. On bottom left of photo is written his name and designation "socialist and activist".
Interview: Debanuj Dasgupta on Immigration Rights

Debanuj DasGupta’s current activism and research travels take him through India, UK and the US focusing on issues of national security, migration, and embodied justice. In this (republished) interview, he chats with TARSHI about the issues of queering immigration.
By TARSHI Team
September 1, 2016
Interview: Debanuj Dasgupta on Immigration Rights
Interview: Dr. Payoshni Mitra
photo of activist Dr. Payoshini Mitra. She wears glasses and long hair, and is wearing a black sweater with an orange-and-black patterned scarf
Interview: Dr. Payoshni Mitra

Dr. Payoshni Mitra, a researcher, activist and writer working on gender issues in sport in India with special emphasis on intersexuality…
By TARSHI Team
September 1, 2014
Interview: Dr. Payoshni Mitra
INTERVIEW: DR. PAYOSHNI MITRA
photo of activist Dr. Payoshini Mitra. She wears glasses and long hair, and is wearing a black sweater with an orange-and-black patterned scarf
INTERVIEW: DR. PAYOSHNI MITRA

Dr. Payoshni Mitra, a researcher, activist and writer working on gender issues in sport in India with special emphasis on intersexuality…
By TARSHI Team
December 1, 2014
INTERVIEW: DR. PAYOSHNI MITRA
Interview: Food and Sexuality Via Email with Radhika Chandiramani
A close up photo of a bunch of clams
Interview: Food and Sexuality Via Email with Radhika Chandiramani

Radhika Chandiramani founded TARSHI in 1996. She is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for Leadership Development and the Soros…
By TARSHI Team
October 15, 2015
Interview: Food and Sexuality Via Email with Radhika Chandiramani
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I
Picture of Paromita Vohra, she has short hair, wearing a pink saree and black blouse with a flower in her hair
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I

In an interview with TARSHI, Paromita Vohra tells it to us as only she can: frank, articulate and free of male cow poop!
By TARSHI Team
January 2, 2019
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I
Picture of Paromita Vohra, she has short hair, wearing a pink saree and black blouse with a flower in her hair
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I

In a two-part interview with TARSHI, Paromita Vohra tells it to us as only she can: frank, articulate and free of male cow poop!
By TARSHI Team
August 1, 2018
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part II
Picture of Agents of Ishq founder Paromita Vohra . She has glasses and short hair
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part II

In a two-part interview with TARSHI, Paromita Vohra tells it to us as only she can: frank, articulate and free of male cow poop!
By TARSHI Team
August 14, 2018
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part II
Interview: Ruth Gould
A picture of Ruth Gould, the artistic director of DaDa fest. She has long hair and is wearing silver earrings.
Interview: Ruth Gould

Ruth Gould is the Artistic Director of DaDaFest. She is trained in performance arts, speech and drama from Liverpool Theatre…
By TARSHI Team
August 1, 2014
Interview: Ruth Gould
INTERVIEW: SEXUALITY AND ADOLESCENTS
Youngsters wearing red shirts with "Enough is enough" written in black march on a road, carrying placards reading "Child sexual abuse - what are you doing about it?"; "The most public secret needs to be told"; and "it takes a community to protect a child."
INTERVIEW: SEXUALITY AND ADOLESCENTS

Our interview section this month features excerpts from three of our past interviews on issues in dealing with adolescent sexuality:…
By TARSHI Team
August 1, 2015
INTERVIEW: SEXUALITY AND ADOLESCENTS
Interview: Sheema Kermani
Interview: Sheema Kermani

Sheema Kermani is a cultural activist, theatre practitioner, theatre director and a known Pakistani exponent of Indian classical dance. She had studied Bharatanatyam…
By TARSHI Team
December 1, 2014
Interview: Sheema Kermani
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