Interview

Interview – Anahita Sarabhai
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Interview – Anahita Sarabhai

As a queer person, it’s hard not to think right away of chosen family. A term that has become relatively well-known by now, but not always understood I find. One of the primary support systems I personally, like many queer folx, depend on, are ones that we develop and nurture over time.
By Shikha Aleya
November 2, 2020
Interview – Anahita Sarabhai
Interview – Amba Salelkar
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Interview – Amba Salelkar

But not every issue of discrimination and conflict can go to a court.Say for example, affording privacy to a young adult with disability to understand their body and sexual responses, or enabling them to access accessible sex toys or assistive devices related to sexual pleasure.
By Shikha Aleya
September 1, 2020
Interview – Amba Salelkar
Interview – Abha Khetarpal
Interview – Abha Khetarpal

Abha Khetarpal is a disability rights activist and self-advocate, writer, motivational speaker, and President of Cross the Hurdles, a resource…
By Shikha Aleya
May 1, 2020
Interview – Abha Khetarpal
Interview – #covid19 and conversations online: Listening in
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Interview – #covid19 and conversations online: Listening in

We are plugged in to all kinds of data from a variety of sources, through technology, and even a window view of this space is like stepping into a global COVID control data centre. We are standing up to be counted, to be seen, to do, to contribute, to advocate, to remind, to rectify and restore, to strengthen a growing network of support and response to crisis on a scale we have neither been able to process or measure.
By Shikha Aleya
May 15, 2021
Interview – #covid19 and conversations online: Listening in
Interview with ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava
Still from "Lipstick Under My Burkha", showing actress Ratna Pathak Shah in a lingerie store
Interview with ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava

Alankrita Shrivastava made her directorial debut with the film ‘Turning 30!!!’ (2011) and has been committed to telling stories about women from a woman’s perspective. Her second and most recent film ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ (2016) has received international recognition and is slated to release in India in early 2017.
By Anjora Sarangi
January 5, 2017
Interview with ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava
Interview : Arvind Narrain
Interview : Arvind Narrain

JG: As a founder member of The Alternative Law Forum (ALF) you have engaged with conventional law and at the…
By Jasmine George
June 1, 2014
Interview : Arvind Narrain
Interview – We Have Questions!
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Interview – We Have Questions!

There are times when we bend the rules and draw on the walls. This is one of those times. We listened in on some of the chatter online on the subject of consent and we ended up with some questions.
By Shikha Aleya
March 17, 2025
Interview – We Have Questions!
Interview – This is what you bring to the table!
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Interview – This is what you bring to the table!

In this write up, we’d like to share a sense of what emerges from a compilation of these responses. This is based on the thoughts and feelings that come through for those of us here at In Plainspeak who have had the joy of reading the original responses as they came in to us. (Some of the quotations that follow have been slightly edited for flow and to help connect themes.) We know that most things in the realm of art, information and ideas lend themselves to a wide range of inferences and insights depending on the individuals making the inferences.
By Shikha Aleya
March 1, 2022
Interview – This is what you bring to the table!
Interview – Sunil Gupta
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Interview – Sunil Gupta

Sunil Gupta is an artist, activist, and a curator, based in London UK. In this interview, he talks to Manak…
By Manak Matiyani
July 1, 2014
Interview – Sunil Gupta
Interview – Suchitra Dalvie
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Interview – Suchitra Dalvie

Getting to know who I really am has been a game changer. Prejudice, anger, control and violence all emerge from fear.
By Shikha Aleya
May 16, 2024
Interview – Suchitra Dalvie
Interview – Srila Roy
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Interview – Srila Roy

“Questions of difference should not be a cause for despair. There are examples from history and our own lives that show how we can connect across difference and stand in solidarity with one another…”
By Shikha Aleya
December 12, 2022
Interview – Srila Roy
Interview – Sadhana Vohra
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Interview – Sadhana Vohra

Sadhana Vohra is a psychotherapist in private practice in New Delhi, India. She divides her time between long hours at…
By Radhika Chandiramani
January 11, 2024
Interview – Sadhana Vohra
Interview – Reetika Revathy Subramanian
Reetika Revathy Subramanian
Interview – Reetika Revathy Subramanian

… climate change is not just environmental. It is social, political, economic, emotional. And it demands that we listen carefully to who is affected, how, and what they are already doing to survive.
By Shikha Aleya
August 19, 2025
Interview – Reetika Revathy Subramanian
Interview – Prarthana Prasad
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Interview – Prarthana Prasad

Entertainment should aim to inspire, comfort, reflect and express. Even if something violent earns big at the box office, it doesn’t justify its creation.
By Shikha Aleya
February 15, 2024
Interview – Prarthana Prasad
Interview – Prakash
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Interview – Prakash

“I feel that connection is the survival language of the LGBTQIA+ community. The sense of a common struggle makes way for developing quick yet lasting connections among the community…”
By Shikha Aleya
November 15, 2022
Interview – Prakash
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