Issue In Focus
Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media
Five snippets from three months. In August, Indian actress Poonam Pandey dons a bikini for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge…
By Bishakha Datta
October 1, 2014
Sports: Hegemonic Masculinities And The Feminist Conundrum
As a teenager, I played tennis with friends, both male and female. Mostly we played with whoever was available to…
By Shweta Krishnan
September 1, 2014
Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!
The Union Budget, 2014 presented by the newly elected government a few weeks ago includes various provisions for disabled persons…
By Rupsa Mallik
August 1, 2014
Art & Activism
Some propositions: Nothing ‘activates’ like art. (I’ll speak here of theatre). It can touch, stir the senses, the head, the…
By Maya Krishan Rao
July 1, 2014
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
June 1, 2014
Issue In Focus: Body Image is a Mind Thing
This is not a cautionary fable about censorship and its excesses, but an exploratory essay on body image, using breasts as a starting point.
By Bishakha Datta
May 1, 2014
Making Abortion Safer
India has a very liberal abortion law on paper. Compared with global standards, the Indian law that governs abortions, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, allows for abortion for a broad range of indications, making it a very progressive law that has been around for more than four decades. But how many of us really know this?
By Medha Gandhi
April 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
March 1, 2014
Issue in Focus: My right to say ‘yes’ and my right to say ‘no’
Women in our societies largely do not have any acquaintance with the word ‘consent’, but they are very familiar with…
By Sumati Panikkar
February 1, 2014
Issue In Focus: Perverse Justice
I am a perverse nomad. My journey encompasses cruising parks in Kolkata and New York City, friendships with didis of…
By Debanuj DasGupta
January 1, 2014
Issue In Focus: Sexual Rights
It may be useful to visualize sexual rights as a large tree with deep roots and a vast canopy of…
By Radhika Chandiramani
December 1, 2013