Body
[slideshow_deploy id=’532′] PGs or Paying Guest accommodations are a big ‘phenomenon’ in Delhi given the number of universities and colleges…
Theme: Relationship With Self Through this work of art, I want to depict the relationship of our self with the mirror…
TO MY BODY: I would have addressed you as ‘Dear’ but perhaps we both know how complicated that would be.
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.
This piece attempts to think about how bodies are produced and circulate in moving registers and discourses, chiefly around the question of representation.
‘How can she claim to be deaf if she doesn’t use sign language?’ ‘I’m glad this film has articulated the…
[slideshow_deploy id=’5490′] To some Amrita Sher-Gil is the ‘Indian Frida Kahlo’. This month we feature five of her paintings which show women…
The Nepal Earthquake and its devastating impact on the citizens of the country was also felt amongst a small group…
Academic scholarship, popular culture and media-generated sex surveys are only beginning to understand ‘pre-marital’ sex among young people in India….
Rebecca Traister, in her recent article for the New Republic, titled Let’s Just Say It: Women Matter More Than Fetuses…
The body is our tangible hacker of the world. It experiences the world and the world experiences it. I do…
It’s (already!) mid-2015: advocates, activists, development workers, policy wonks working on the ‘new development agenda’ or ‘sustainable development goals’ or…
Nidhi Goyal is a gender and disability rights activist from Mumbai, India. Anisha Dutt: Your journey as a disability and gender rights activist…
[slideshow_deploy id=’6065′] The following photographs question our notions of beauty and an ‘ideal’ body. Rahul Saharan shot a series of…
My experience of school, as I remember it, was quite conflicted. As a child I lacked the vocabulary to describe…