Desire
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.
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.
A moving short film by Mira Nair on the anguish we subject ourselves to when faced with the inexplicable power…
This post is a part of TARSHI‘s #TalkSexuality Campaign. By Shruti Arora “I’ve never told this to anyone before, but…
[slideshow_deploy id=’4883′] This series of images captures a few Indian dance forms that have over time told stories of desire….
It is not entirely impossible to imagine that classical Indian dance is timeless or that the stories narrated in these…
Post the historic Naz Foundation judgment of the Delhi High Court in July 2009, a prominent English news magazine carried…
This piece attempts to think about how bodies are produced and circulate in moving registers and discourses, chiefly around the question of representation.