Shikha Aleya

Of Socks and Sexuality
An anti-suffragette cartoon. A man washing laundry. On the wall, a board reads, "Everybody works but mother: she's a suffragette".
Of Socks and Sexuality

I grew up with a book cupboard where Paul Gallico’s Love of Seven Dolls rubbed shoulders with Germain Greer’s The…
By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2015
Of Socks and Sexuality
इन्टरनेट पर परिवार और यौनिकता : एक रिव्यु  
Screenshot of the homepage of the Parents India website. A photo of parents reading to their two kids is visible.
इन्टरनेट पर परिवार और यौनिकता : एक रिव्यु  

यह मेरी इन्टरनेट पर भारतीय परिवारों द्वारा और ‘परिवार और यौनिकता’ विषय पर पोस्ट की जाने वाली सामग्री को पढ़…
By Shikha Aleya
October 17, 2015
इन्टरनेट पर परिवार और यौनिकता : एक रिव्यु  
A Chicken Tikka Roll For Real Men
Screenshot of a YouTube page. The video still shows a husband sitting at a dining table. His wife stands nearby, talking to him, pointing to a mixer kept on the table.
A Chicken Tikka Roll For Real Men

Bakasura Chicken Tikka Roll. 100% Wholesome. Made for Real Men. In the home delivery menu card of a local restaurant,…
By Shikha Aleya
October 1, 2015
A Chicken Tikka Roll For Real Men
Issue In Focus: This Thing We Call Freedom
Screenshot of a computer screen, on which is opened a webpage titled, "Kama Sutra for parents of young children."
Issue In Focus: This Thing We Call Freedom

Chandra Deo Singh, a name not necessarily familiar to many of us, spent time in prison in1945 for taking part…
By Shikha Aleya
August 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: This Thing We Call Freedom
Interview: Bishakha Datta on the Brave New (Digital) World
Bishakha Datta with short hair, wearing green earrings, and a brown top.
Interview: Bishakha Datta on the Brave New (Digital) World

Bishakha Datta is an Indian filmmaker, activist and a former journalist. She runs Point of View, a Mumbai based non-profit,…
By Shikha Aleya
July 1, 2015
Interview: Bishakha Datta on the Brave New (Digital) World
Somebody Else’s Dolly
Collage of photos of women with locomotor disabilities in seductive poses
Somebody Else’s Dolly

The body is our tangible hacker of the world. It experiences the world and the world experiences it. I do…
By Shikha Aleya
June 1, 2015
Somebody Else’s Dolly
Review: Family and Sexuality on the Internet
Screenshot of a website called 'Parents.com' which shows a family - a man, a woman and a child leaning on them
Review: Family and Sexuality on the Internet

I am attempting to review public conversation for and by the Indian family on Family and Sexuality on the Internet….
By Shikha Aleya
May 1, 2015
Review: Family and Sexuality on the Internet
Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists
Abract pastel sketches on white paper
Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists

The rabbit and the monster is a story about a baby rabbit all alone in a jungle trying to escape…
By Shikha Aleya
April 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists
Issue in Focus: Women’s Sexuality is a Troubling Thing
Painting of a face with no emotions. It has brown skin, black hair, the background colour is red.
Issue in Focus: Women’s Sexuality is a Troubling Thing

… and the Award goes to… … Vasilyev’s wife … … for having birthed the maximum number of children. I…
By Shikha Aleya
March 1, 2015
Issue in Focus: Women’s Sexuality is a Troubling Thing
Interview: Radhika Chandiramani
Interview: Radhika Chandiramani
February 1, 2015
Interview: Radhika Chandiramani
CSE and Online Hot Bath Scenes
Screenshot of an online forum discussing socialists "training boys to be good girlfriends and not to act like men."
CSE and Online Hot Bath Scenes

No matter how many optional ways I’ve considered for starting this piece, I keep returning to ‘hot’ and ‘masala’. I’ve…
By Shikha Aleya
February 1, 2015
CSE and Online Hot Bath Scenes
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions
Neenu Kewlani (centre), Gopika Anand (right) and Divya Arora. the winners of the first Miss Wheelchair India contest, decked up in colourful sarees and makeup
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions

… the heroine an amputee on a microprocessor controlled prosthetic leg with a hydraulic foot and ankle system raises her…
By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2014
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions
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