Desire
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
Desire Against Desire
Post the historic Naz Foundation judgment of the Delhi High Court in July 2009, a prominent English news magazine carried…
By Oishik Sircar
June 1, 2014
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
January 1, 2015
Brushstrokes: Desire In Dance
[slideshow_deploy id=’4883′] This series of images captures a few Indian dance forms that have over time told stories of desire….
By Curated Content
January 1, 2015
Why Sexuality & Sexual Freedom Need To Be Discussed Beyond Violence Against Women
This post is a part of TARSHI‘s #TalkSexuality Campaign. By Shruti Arora “I’ve never told this to anyone before, but…
By Curated Content
Video Page: ‘How Can It Be’
A moving short film by Mira Nair on the anguish we subject ourselves to when faced with the inexplicable power…
By Curated Content
February 1, 2016
The Challenge of Accessibility: Desire, Fantasy and People with Disabilities
The general attitude towards sexual fantasy, and the reflection of such fantasies in popular imagery, erotica and erotic porn is constructed on assumptions of ableism. There are other fantasies though, that reflect or are born of the sexuality of their creators and consumers, persons who do not fit into the accepted age, body or sexual identity.
By Shikha Aleya
Reel Review: Desire and Conciliation in Raj Kapoor’s Satyam Shivam Sundaram
Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Truth, God, Beauty) is the story of Rupa (Zeenat Aman), an archetypical abhagan (wretched girl), whose misery begins at her birth when her mother dies. She is immediately declared an accursed child and is shunned by others. Later, a freak accident results in scalding oil splashing across one side of her face, leaving her permanently scarred. Nevertheless, she goes about her daily life – alone, yet content.
By Syed Saad Ahmad
The Editorial: Money and Sexuality
Aspects of sexuality such as aesthetic taste, body image, sexual orientation, desires and aspirations, self-esteem, gender expression, reproductive choices, and more, are all interdependent with the impact of money in our lives and that of those around us. Indeed, our systemic relationship with money has a direct influence on how we ‘value’ ourselves.
By TARSHI
May 15, 2017
The Editorial: The Internet and Sexuality
Our desire to connect is perhaps one of the human aspirations that both Sexuality and the Internet serve. And with the Internet we now have new ways, unthought of even twenty years ago, of connecting with each other, and even at times with ourselves, finding aspects of our selves that we did not know existed.
By TARSHI
June 15, 2017
Three must-watch documentaries about disability
The First International Film Festival for Persons with Disabilities was recently organised by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment…
By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Brushtrokes: Queering Bombay’s Public Spaces
This article/photo essay was originally published in Gaysi Family. In a society that heavily restricts expressions of sexuality, openly asserting…
By Curated Content
August 16, 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