Issue In Focus
DESIRE AGAINST DESIRE
Post the historic Naz Foundation judgment of the Delhi High Court in July 2009, a prominent English news magazine carried…
By Oishik Sircar
December 1, 2014
BEYOND THE SIMPLE FORMULAS
‘Woman? It’s simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female –…
By Shweta Krishnan
December 1, 2014
Dances of Desire: From Devadasis to Modern Storytellers
It is not entirely impossible to imagine that classical Indian dance is timeless or that the stories narrated in these…
By Shweta Krishnan
January 1, 2015
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery
I have great respect for Michel Foucault and his views on sexuality in our present era. While speaking on the…
By Sonia Soans
February 1, 2015
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
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
The Conundrum of Choice: Marriage, Family and Sexuality
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” Leo Tolstoy The year 2014 as…
By Pooja Badarinath
Pleasure and Sex: Non-Committed Sexual Relationships in Urban India
Academic scholarship, popular culture and media-generated sex surveys are only beginning to understand ‘pre-marital’ sex among young people in India….
By Ketaki Chowkhani
Reproductive Technologies – A Feminist Analysis
In the last two decades the use of reproductive technologies[1] (RTs) has become an inevitable and often indispensable part of…
By Rupsa Mallik
July 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
Issue In Focus: The Post-2015 Development Agenda: What’s in it for us?
The Post-2015 Development Agenda has been on everyone’s mind in the last eight months in some form or the other….
By Sivananthi Thanenthiran
September 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: Food, Drink and Sexuality
I met Lamai[1] at a spa in Bangkok. She was eager to talk, and told me about her village eight…
By Shweta Krishnan
October 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: Challenging Neo-liberal ‘Equality’ in Consent
In an ideal world, this article would read at Tweet-length: “Enthusiastic sexual consent is sexy, and necessary for negotiating unequal…
By Kristin Francoeur
November 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: What’s Porn Got To Do With It?
During a recent conversation with an American friend who is a self-professed feminist of the second-wave variety and hence regards…
By Harjant Gill
November 1, 2015
Nazrein Milana, Nazrein Churana OR Your Selfie’s Eye: An Anecdotal Reflection
In 2013, ‘selfie’ entered the Oxford English Dictionary. By 2015, with front-facing phone cameras available on the cheapest of smartphones,…
By Paromita Vohra