Body Image
December 1, 2014
How Scarlett Johansson Helped me Challenge Disfigurement Stigma
Adam Pearson was born with a condition that causes tumours to grow on his face. But acting with Scarlett Johansson in ‘Under the Skin’ is changing the way people look at him.
By Curated Content
Beauty is The Beast: How Women Let Their Looks Matter
The young Suchitra Sen – then plain Krishna Dasgupta – apparently once sat on a school bench and announced that she would be remembered long after her death. An ordinary middle class girl who was one of nine siblings, and an average student bereft of any artistic talent, all Sen had was her looks. But apparently, that was enough. “She was conscious of her great beauty… and behaved as if she… deserved every bit of the natural selection,” wrote Susmita Dasgupta in a thoughtful Facebook note.
By Curated Content
May 1, 2014
Freak Shows: Looking at Human Bodies on Exhibit
No two human bodies are alike, and our different bodies arouse curiosity. But our fascination for the aesthetics of the perfect human body has historically created a space within art, science and religion for the examination of the ‘abnormal’ and the ‘imperfect’. As a result, some bodies are normalised while others become oddities.
By Shweta Krishnan
May 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
Being Thin… Being Me
Which one of these is the right question to ask myself: When was the first time I realised I was thin? Or, when was the first time I was made to realise I was ‘different’ and there was something wrong with me that needed to be fixed? Or, when was the first time I defined myself as a thin person and was comfortable being so?
By Ekta Oza
May 1, 2014
Too Big
Why do we always assume that violence is done to us by someone else and not that we do it to ourselves quite easily and then have a million explanations to justify why we do not eat, why we use Fair and Lovely face cream, why we spend hours in the gym under duress, and why we focus incessantly on how much one has gained or lost in kilos and not in a metaphysical sense?
By Pramada Menon
May 1, 2014
The Editorial: Body Image
Do you love your eyes and hate your knees? Or do you sometimes wish your XXX were different? Replace XXX with any body part of your choice. We have all been there – griping, never satisfied, and never owning our own beauty. How do we perceive and evaluate our own bodies? What do we love? What do we loathe? And why?
By TARSHI
May 1, 2014
Love Letter to the Body Project
TO MY BODY: I would have addressed you as ‘Dear’ but perhaps we both know how complicated that would be.
By Yamini Deenadayalan
May 1, 2014
Brushstrokes: Body Image
[slideshow_deploy id=’2632′] We want what we see, And imitate the girls on TV, and we get over-awed, by an IMAGE,…
By Sakshi Bhatia
May 1, 2014
Mirror Mirror On The Wall: Who Is The Truest Of All?
Theme: Relationship With Self Through this work of art, I want to depict the relationship of our self with the mirror…
By Jasmine George
December 1, 2013