Body
Brushstrokes
[slideshow_deploy id=’6065′] The following photographs question our notions of beauty and an ‘ideal’ body. Rahul Saharan shot a series of…
By Curated Content
June 1, 2015
Interview: Nidhi Goyal
Nidhi Goyal is a gender and disability rights activist from Mumbai, India. Anisha Dutt: Your journey as a disability and gender rights activist…
By Anisha Dutt
June 1, 2015
The Body In Development Speak
It’s (already!) mid-2015: advocates, activists, development workers, policy wonks working on the ‘new development agenda’ or ‘sustainable development goals’ or…
By Rishita Nandagiri
June 1, 2015
Somebody Else’s Dolly
The body is our tangible hacker of the world. It experiences the world and the world experiences it. I do…
By Shikha Aleya
June 1, 2015
Notes On Body and Sexuality From The Abortion Discourse
Rebecca Traister, in her recent article for the New Republic, titled Let’s Just Say It: Women Matter More Than Fetuses…
By Surabhi Srivastava and Kristin Francoeur
Pleasure and Sex: Non-Committed Sexual Relationships in Urban India
Academic scholarship, popular culture and media-generated sex surveys are only beginning to understand ‘pre-marital’ sex among young people in India….
By Ketaki Chowkhani
The Fear of the ‘Other’: The Emerging Gay Family in Transnational Surrogacy
The Nepal Earthquake and its devastating impact on the citizens of the country was also felt amongst a small group…
By Anindita Majumdar
Brushstrokes: Seeing Through The Bold Strokes of Amrita Sher-Gil
[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…
By Curated Content
‘What can we do for them?’
‘How can she claim to be deaf if she doesn’t use sign language?’ ‘I’m glad this film has articulated the…
By Shweta Ghosh
August 1, 2014
Bodies Beyond Rights
This piece attempts to think about how bodies are produced and circulate in moving registers and discourses, chiefly around the question of representation.
By Vikramaditya Sahai
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
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
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
What Do Sexual Rights Mean To You?
[slideshow_deploy id=’532′] PGs or Paying Guest accommodations are a big ‘phenomenon’ in Delhi given the number of universities and colleges…
By Disha Luthra
December 1, 2013