Literature

Windows: My Introduction To Sexuality Through Literature
book cover of 'out' - a book of queer stories

All these works have made me acutely aware of how gender, sexuality, and religion, are so deeply intertwined in the social fabric. Also, how conditioning can significantly influence one’s understanding of literature, or the lack of it.

By Asmi
March 2, 2020
Windows: My Introduction To Sexuality Through Literature
Finding Lit’s Political Potentials
an illustration showing the solar system

Fiction is often relegated to a secondary stow because fact-based forms of knowledge are becoming more and more valued. To be informed is to stay with the facts. Yet I think fiction allows us to stay just about as informed.

By Shweta Krishnan
March 2, 2020
Finding Lit’s Political Potentials
The Moment

You held my hand, we hugged each other / I was lost in your love, wanting to go further

By Shilpa Sachdeva
March 2, 2020
The Moment
Brushstrokes:The Lurid Covers of 20th-Century Pulp Fiction
picture of a pulp fiction novel cover

Considering how sexuality was a running (and selling) theme in pulp fiction stories, and female sexuality was employed as a means to titillate and attract readers, the covers often reflected this.

By Curated Content
March 2, 2020
Brushstrokes:The Lurid Covers of 20th-Century Pulp Fiction
Book Review: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
book review: erotic stories for punjabi widows

Much like any good erotic encounter, Balli Kaur Jaswals’ 2017 novel, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, is a delightful romp that comes to a satisfying, sweet climax and an urge to fall back on the pillows.

By Sheena D'Lima
March 2, 2020
Book Review: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Interview – Kiran Bhat
Image of Kiran Bhat

Kiran Bhat is an author and polyglot who speaks 12 languages, and has written in English, Kannada, Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin. His recently published book, We Of the Forsaken World, has been described as “the tales of not just sixteen strangers, but many different lives, who live on this planet, at every second, everywhere”.

By Shikha Aleya
March 2, 2020
Interview – Kiran Bhat
Finding Feminism
finding feminism: a woman handling a book

Standing behind the camera, with a microphone in one hand, I have felt this power imbalance first hand. The camera may humanise the person in front of it more than a text analysis would, but the modes of production remain in someone else’s hands.

By Surbhi Dewan
March 2, 2020
Finding Feminism
मर्दानगी के सामाजिक आधार

मर्दानगी के निर्माण में शर्मिंदगी की भूमिका, और नायक के खुद के विकास के लिए आत्मविश्वास और क्षमता पर इसका प्रभाव, विशेष रूप से उनके प्रारंभिक वर्षों में, खूबसूरती से सामने लाया गया है।

By Abhiruchi Chatterjee
March 2, 2020
मर्दानगी के सामाजिक आधार
Bodice-Rippers and Bad Education: Do Romance Novels Lead to Sexual Mistakes?
against an orange backdrop, a man leaning down to face a woman, they are in an intimate pose

While we’ve grown used to hearing porn blamed for society’s ills, it’s now the medium’s comparatively matronly cousin – romance novels – that have come under scrutiny.

By Curated Content
December 15, 2018
Bodice-Rippers and Bad Education: Do Romance Novels Lead to Sexual Mistakes?
Beyond Premchand and Manto: Hindi Theatre is Finding Inspiration in the Writings of Vijaydan Detha
Theres are two photos which are stills from the play,Dohri Zindagi. In thr first photograph, there are two women,one is impersonating a man and the other woman is drying out her laundry (bras), she has a sunflower in her hair. In the second photograph the same women are holding eachother and facing eachother. The third photograph is a still of Vijaydan Detha from his documentary.

Every contemporary debate, from homophobia and intolerance, finds an echo in the Rajasthani writer’s stories. Vijaydan Detha’s Dohri Zindagi starts…

By Curated Content
July 15, 2017
Beyond Premchand and Manto: Hindi Theatre is Finding Inspiration in the Writings of Vijaydan Detha
Art and Activism: Strange bedfellows?
A hand holds up the cover of a book which reads, 'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.'
July 15, 2014
Art and Activism: Strange bedfellows?
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