Time and Sexuality
Editorial: Time and Sexuality
Take Time. Add Sexuality to it. How does it move? In a straight line, in circles, or does it zig…
By TARSHI
November 15, 2017
FILMS OF DESIRE/BODIES OF DESIRE
The Church says: the body is a sin Science says: the body is a machine Advertising says: the body is…
By Geetanjali Misra
November 15, 2017
अपनी पहचान उजागर करने की मेरी कहानी
सहयोगी ब्लॉग के सौजन्य से लेखक अपनी पहचान गुप्त रखना चाहते हैं संपादक की ओर से – यह लेख सबसे…
By Anonymous
November 15, 2017
Nostalgia, Love and Desire: A Personal Narrative
I met Benjamin on a hot summer day in 20xx. I was still young, single, and blissfully unaware of the…
By Curated Content
November 15, 2017
Feminism Through the Ages in India: An Empowering Journey
By Sanchari Pal about a year ago A hard hitting film that underlines a woman’s freedom to her body and sexuality, the recently…
By Curated Content
November 15, 2017
पीरियड का चिट्ठा ‘कुछ आप बीती कुछ जग बीती’
इना गोयल मेरी किशोरावस्था के दिनों में माहवारी के दौरान, मेरी नानी ने कभी मुझे रसोईघर में नहीं जाने दिया।…
By Feminism in India
November 15, 2017
Video Page: Khaney Mein Kya Hai?
The engaging and humorous short film Khaney Mein Kya Hai (What’s to eat?) focuses on a seemingly mundane conversation between a…
By Curated Content
November 1, 2017
Same-sex love in the time of decolonisation: Historicising hidden sexual lives in Selvadurai’s Cinnamon Gardens
Cinnamon Gardens, looking back on the early twentieth century, reveals the trauma of queer lives, in a country where queerness, family and the state are still irreconcilable with each other.
By Kaustav Bakshi
Interview: Devdutt Pattanaik
Devdutt Pattanaik writes on relevance of mythology in modern times, especially in areas of management, governance and leadership. Trained in medicine, he worked for 15 years in the healthcare and pharma industries before he focussed on his passion full time. He is author of 30 books and 600 columns, with bestsellers such as My Gita, Jaya, Sita, Business Sutra and the 7 Secret Series.
By Shaifali Agrawal
November 1, 2017
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
November 1, 2017
The Gifts of Time
Even negotiations related to the use of contraception or types of sexual acts in consensual relationships become difficult for a young girl because of her fear of displeasing her partner. But if one is fortunate, time helps us acquire some sets of skills and the language to speak up against violence and enforce decisions surrounding one’s sexual and social life.
By Ramya Anand
November 1, 2017
From Silence to #MeToo
Not everyone, however, is taken in by #MeToo. Some women feel that they shouldn’t have to make a public show of their pain for their suffering to be acknowledged. For others, sharing their story in such a public fashion exposes them to further online harassment from those who think of the hashtag campaign as a sympathy-seeking movement. Then there are those who are downright unimpressed, feeling that it unfairly casts sexual harassment as a man vs. women problem.
By Divya Swaminathan
November 1, 2017
Never Say Dye? Indian Queer Movement Responses to Ageing and Ageism
The articles also reflected the ‘fear of old age’ among younger gay men – not just in terms of what the future would hold, but also in terms of insecurity around ‘losing ground’ in the here and now. The articles reviewed did not quite explore in detail what the ramification of such insecurity was on the mental health, and by extension the sexual health, of younger gay men, but it could not have been positive, especially with the backdrop of the HIV epidemic. The articles did, however, talk about suicide and suicide attempts among gay men, and this did not seem limited to any age bracket.
By Pawan Dhall
November 1, 2017
A time to #metoo or not to
Time and sexuality, neither is one-dimensional, neither is neat and both have a way of being always in a state of movement, whether we like it or not, flow with it or not.
By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2017
नृत्य और इच्छा की अभिव्यक्ति – देवदासियों से आधुनिक कथावाचकों तक का सफ़र
किसी शास्त्रीय नृत्य को देखने वाले एक आम दर्शक के रूप में मुझे लगा कि यह सब किस तरह से मुझसे और मेरे जीवन से सम्बद्ध है। इन नृत्य प्रदर्शनों में दिखाए जाने वाले कथानक अक्सर वे कहानियाँ होती है जिन्हें मैंने बचपन से सुना है फिर भी मुझे इसमें कोई विशेष रूचि नहीं लगती। लेकिन सुश्री रत्नम के दृष्टिकोण के आधार पर, पुराने कथानकों को आधुनिक रूप देने के उनके प्रयासों और किसी पुरानी परंपरा के लुप्त हो जाने पर दुःख प्रकट करने के स्थान पर नृत्य को एक नया रूप देने का के प्रयास को देखते हुए भरतनाट्यम और अन्य शास्त्रीय नृत्य अब और अधिक प्रसांगिक हो जाते हैं जिनसे आप आसानी से जुड जाते हैं।
By Shweta Krishnan