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Brushstrokes: Body in Sexuality
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Brushstrokes: Body in Sexuality

Body is born, as a collection of many parts, into the various collections of bodies. Different combinations or collections are projected onto various historical, spatial and temporal dimensions, out of our needs, desires and capabilities.
By Abhinand Kishore
June 1, 2023
Brushstrokes: Body in Sexuality
Brushstrokes: Bodies, Beauty and Boundaries
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Brushstrokes: Bodies, Beauty and Boundaries

Women’s bodies are considered as symbols of izzat and abru (honour and dignity) making it the woman’s responsibility to ‘protect’ her sexuality, while at the same time, her sexuality is controlled by patriarchs.
By Rinku
August 10, 2023
Brushstrokes: Bodies, Beauty and Boundaries
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates
An illustration of a feminine-presenting person wearing ornate headgear, jewellery and drapped in a pink veil. The person is positioned against a green background. A four-directional peacock design acts as a frame around the person. Inside the frame are the symbols for male, female and intersex. Along the four corners, the following words are written in red in Hijra Farsi: initiation, singing, clapping and death.
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates

This art collection bears the evocative title “Aching Palates”. Within its realm, each artwork embodies an emblematic act that accompanies…
By Anoushka Budhia
July 17, 2023
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates
Brushstrokes – Scribbles
A black-and-white line drawing of a woman with wavy hair, multiple necklaces including one with a beetle pendant, earrings in the shape of a dice. There are stars on her face, and the only colour in the artwork is in the woman’s eyelids, which have been conceptualised as rainbows.
Brushstrokes – Scribbles

Scribbles: an Escape From the Mundane is a product of my thoughts and emotions when I was struggling to understand my sexuality and grappling with the idea of identifying with the spectrum of gender and sexuality outside the binary, but not being able to put a label on it.
By Nishita Kamdar
March 1, 2022
Brushstrokes – Scribbles
Brushstrokes – Celebrating Sexuality
Celebrating Sexuality
Brushstrokes – Celebrating Sexuality

Taboos in relation to female desire, sexuality and the body are often addressed in my work. My recent artistic interest focuses on rituals that are primarily centred on agricultural communities in Bengal that involve the veneration of fertility symbols and celebration of feminine sexuality.
By Mitali Das
March 1, 2022
Brushstrokes – Celebrating Sexuality
Brajabuli as a vehicle of queer desires: love songs in Rituparno Ghosh’s films
Still from the film: Arekti Premer Golpo, showing a man crossdressed as a woman, wearing a cotton sareer, red blouse, and gold jewellery
Brajabuli as a vehicle of queer desires: love songs in Rituparno Ghosh’s films

In my opinion, Ghosh was in search of a language of cinema which could be adequately expressive of queerness; he was slowly moving towards inventing that language, which would not be alienating to his conformist audiences, yet, would be intelligibly pleasurable to his (informed) queer viewers.
By Kaustav Bakshi
May 15, 2018
Brajabuli as a vehicle of queer desires: love songs in Rituparno Ghosh’s films
Art and Activism: Strange bedfellows?
Art and Activism: Strange bedfellows?
July 15, 2014
Art and Activism: Strange bedfellows?
Art & Activism
Photo of performance artist and theatre personality Maya Krishna Rao. She is wearing black and her left hand raised in a dramatic pose. She has long white hair and there is a red bindi on her forehead.
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
Art & Activism
An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste
Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh stands infront of a wall that has a mural painted on it. She has short hair and is wearing a simple top with trousers. There is also a poster behind her that says "stop telling women to smile"
An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Takes Her Public Art Project to Georgia By FELICIA R. LEE APRIL 9, 2014 Tatyana Fazlalizadeh pasted her self-portrait Friday…
By Curated Content
July 15, 2014
An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste
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