Issue In Focus
This is not a cautionary fable about censorship and its excesses, but an exploratory essay on body image, using breasts as a starting point.
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?
‘Woman? It’s simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female –…
Women in our societies largely do not have any acquaintance with the word ‘consent’, but they are very familiar with…
I am a perverse nomad. My journey encompasses cruising parks in Kolkata and New York City, friendships with didis of…
It may be useful to visualize sexual rights as a large tree with deep roots and a vast canopy of…