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Masculinity, queer representation, and the motifs of movement in ‘Dedh Ishqiya’
A shot from the film featuring the two female leads, one is preparing a paan with the other’s face resting on her shoulder. Both the women are smiling.

The film has all the makings and trimmings of a commercial thriller – a dynamic story, song and dance, an action-packed climax – and at the same time, it is a cinephile’s film.

By Srishti Gupta
May 3, 2022
Masculinity, queer representation, and the motifs of movement in ‘Dedh Ishqiya’
How We Reimagine and Redefine Freedoms
Silhouette of a woman against an abstract, colourful background

Every part of life, the world too, is storied. Stories are the thread that hold histories and truths together. Stories are at the core of myth-making. Everything that we know is part of multiple crisscrossing relational storylines that we raise and those that we have no power in raising.

By Curated Content
March 15, 2022
How We Reimagine and Redefine Freedoms
Poems by Nhylar
A watercolour image of a woman

1. A Certain Type of Life  since the age of 16 I idealised a certain type of life involving certain…

By Nhylar
July 1, 2020
Poems by Nhylar
Nanette: Of Universality and Difference
Black and white picture of stand-up comic Hannah Gadsby. She has short hair and wears dark glasses.

In Nanette, Hannah Gadsby’s hour-long Netflix special that transcends the very notions of stand-up comedy, forces of reclamation, protest, and rage culminate to form a darkly hilarious but heartbreaking diatribe against patriarchy, heteronormativity, violence and marginalisation.

By Anonymous
September 4, 2018
Nanette: Of Universality and Difference
Mid-Air Between Heaven and Earth

The concluding chapter reiterates the aims of the book, i.e., “to start critical conversations within the disciplines of psychology, social work, childhood studies, and family studies in India and to think about exclusions inherent in these disciplines.

By Madhu Kewalramani
August 14, 2018
Mid-Air Between Heaven and Earth
I Spent a Year in India and I Looked Ridiculous!
A self-conscious white woman with her arms crossed uncomfortably, wearing an Indian dress of bright orange-coloured suit with a green khadi jacket.

Despite the intervention of many well-meaning aunties and friends over cups of chai, I don’t think I was aware of how truly strange, let’s even say ridiculous, I looked at the time. Because although I was wearing kurtis nearly every day, I didn’t really understand the ‘rules’ of wearing kurtis.

By Annie McCarthy
August 2, 2016
I Spent a Year in India and I Looked Ridiculous!
Reel Review: Blue Is The Warmest Color
poster for the film 'blue is the warmest colour', which shows two young girls facing each other intimately

There are many ways of looking at Blue is the Warmest Colour, last year’s French release about a love story…

By Bishakha Datta
December 1, 2014
Reel Review: Blue Is The Warmest Color
Reel Review: Blue Is The Warmest Color
poster for the film 'blue is the warmest colour', which shows two young girls facing each other intimately
March 1, 2014
Reel Review: Blue Is The Warmest Color