Violence

To the Beat of Activism on Gender and Violence in India
To the Beat of Activism on Gender and Violence in India
To the Beat of Activism on Gender and Violence in India

As someone who was surrounded by the sounds of music at home from my early childhood and with a parent who worked in rural education programmes, forming connections between art and (social) change wasn’t too difficult, albeit extremely challenging to explain to many other people who didn’t necessarily see the power that art has to deliver a message or be used as a tool for change.
By Pattie Gonsalves
December 5, 2016
To the Beat of Activism on Gender and Violence in India
Issue In Focus: Is ‘Dhanda’ (Sex Business) Work? – II
Six sex workers dressed up in sarees on a stage, smiling. Screen reader support enabled. Six sex workers dressed up in sarees on a stage, smiling.
Issue In Focus: Is ‘Dhanda’ (Sex Business) Work? – II

Is business work? Can business that involves providing sexual services be understood as work? If work is any mental or physical activity performed for a result, then for the individual performing the activity sex work is work. If work is any activity performed as a means of survival, then sex work is work.
By Meena Saraswathi Seshu and Aarthi Pai
April 18, 2016
Issue In Focus: Is ‘Dhanda’ (Sex Business) Work? – II
the fearless campaign
An illustration of a boy facing a tiger, while they're both on a boat, with a quote from Life of Pi written above.
the fearless campaign

[slideshow_deploy id=’1470′] In India, we are constantly confronted by images of what Indian women should be. Goddess on walls portray…
By Shilo Shiv Suleman
December 1, 2014
the fearless campaign
Am I ‘The Man’ On The Court?
A photo of a woman standing in the middle of a green meadow, leaning against a brown tree bark. She has shoulder length black hair and is wearing a light blue kurta
Am I ‘The Man’ On The Court?

I find that sports spaces demand that all athletes, irrespective of their gender, ‘play like men’. I was recently coaching…
By Supriya Subramani
September 1, 2014
Am I ‘The Man’ On The Court?
Review: Women We Worship, Women We Abuse
A series of photos of Indian goddesses shown with bruises on various parts of their face.
Review: Women We Worship, Women We Abuse

It is almost a year old, but the Abused Goddesses campaign created ripples in the fabric of activism that are…
By Shweta Krishnan
July 1, 2014
Review: Women We Worship, Women We Abuse
Issue in Focus: My right to say ‘yes’ and my right to say ‘no’
A black-and-white silhouette of a girl standing in a deserted wasteland
Issue in Focus: My right to say ‘yes’ and my right to say ‘no’

Women in our societies largely do not have any acquaintance with the word ‘consent’, but they are very familiar with…
By Sumati Panikkar
February 1, 2014
Issue in Focus: My right to say ‘yes’ and my right to say ‘no’
Voices: Silencing the Body: On Blissful Cinematic Ignorance and Social Insensitivity
A still of actor Divya Dutta from the film 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'. She is wearing a pink headscarf and bloue jacket, and her right palm is held up to her head in the manner of a salute.
Voices: Silencing the Body: On Blissful Cinematic Ignorance and Social Insensitivity

 In one of the most compelling and difficult scenes in 2013’s acclaimed Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, a young Milkha Singh is…
By Parigya Sharma
February 1, 2014
Voices: Silencing the Body: On Blissful Cinematic Ignorance and Social Insensitivity
Consent & Coercion
A still from Gangs of Wasseypur, showing a man and woman discussing consent through speech bubbles.
Consent & Coercion

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By Must Bol
February 1, 2014
Consent & Coercion
Poem: Age 7
Black and white picture of a child covering their face
Poem: Age 7

tender lips that had forgotten, momentarily, the taste of mother’s milk and couldn’t tell the silence of the womb from…
By Mukesh
February 1, 2014
Poem: Age 7
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