TARSHI Team

Sexy Times Survey: Preliminary Results
Sexy Times Survey: Preliminary Results

TARSHI has been running a survey (we’re still accepting responses) to understand how people feel about their sexual lives during the…
By TARSHI Team
June 1, 2020
Sexy Times Survey: Preliminary Results
Interview: Throwback to Pramada Menon’s ‘Fat, Feminist and Free’
Interview: Throwback to Pramada Menon’s ‘Fat, Feminist and Free’
January 18, 2016
Interview: Throwback to Pramada Menon’s ‘Fat, Feminist and Free’
Interview: Three Minutes with Dr Watsa
Dr Watsa sitting on a chair, with his hands on his chin. He is wearing coat, tie, and a watch.
Interview: Three Minutes with Dr Watsa

Mahinder Watsa is a 92-year old gynaecologist and sexologist, famous for his Ask the Sexpert column in Mumbai Mirror for the past 10 years, and is an author of It’s Normal, a book that explains human sexual anatomy, defines complex notions such as love, partnership and consent, and takes on popular myths. He has spent a lifetime dispelling sexual ignorance and is known for his wry humour and blunt answers.

By TARSHI Team
May 1, 2016
Interview: Three Minutes with Dr Watsa
Interview: Sheema Kermani
Interview: Sheema Kermani

Sheema Kermani is a cultural activist, theatre practitioner, theatre director and a known Pakistani exponent of Indian classical dance. She had studied Bharatanatyam…
By TARSHI Team
December 1, 2014
Interview: Sheema Kermani
INTERVIEW: SEXUALITY AND ADOLESCENTS
Youngsters wearing red shirts with "Enough is enough" written in black march on a road, carrying placards reading "Child sexual abuse - what are you doing about it?"; "The most public secret needs to be told"; and "it takes a community to protect a child."
INTERVIEW: SEXUALITY AND ADOLESCENTS

Our interview section this month features excerpts from three of our past interviews on issues in dealing with adolescent sexuality:…
By TARSHI Team
August 1, 2015
INTERVIEW: SEXUALITY AND ADOLESCENTS
Interview: Ruth Gould
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Interview: Ruth Gould

Ruth Gould is the Artistic Director of DaDaFest. She is trained in performance arts, speech and drama from Liverpool Theatre…
By TARSHI Team
August 1, 2014
Interview: Ruth Gould
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part II
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Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part II

In a two-part interview with TARSHI, Paromita Vohra tells it to us as only she can: frank, articulate and free of male cow poop!
By TARSHI Team
August 14, 2018
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part II
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I
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Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I

In an interview with TARSHI, Paromita Vohra tells it to us as only she can: frank, articulate and free of male cow poop!
By TARSHI Team
January 2, 2019
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I
Picture of Paromita Vohra, she has short hair, wearing a pink saree and black blouse with a flower in her hair
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I

In a two-part interview with TARSHI, Paromita Vohra tells it to us as only she can: frank, articulate and free of male cow poop!
By TARSHI Team
August 1, 2018
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I
Interview: Food and Sexuality Via Email with Radhika Chandiramani
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Interview: Food and Sexuality Via Email with Radhika Chandiramani

Radhika Chandiramani founded TARSHI in 1996. She is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for Leadership Development and the Soros…
By TARSHI Team
October 15, 2015
Interview: Food and Sexuality Via Email with Radhika Chandiramani
Interview: Dr. Payoshni Mitra
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Interview: Dr. Payoshni Mitra

Dr. Payoshni Mitra, a researcher, activist and writer working on gender issues in sport in India with special emphasis on intersexuality…
By TARSHI Team
September 1, 2014
Interview: Dr. Payoshni Mitra
INTERVIEW: DR. PAYOSHNI MITRA
photo of activist Dr. Payoshini Mitra. She wears glasses and long hair, and is wearing a black sweater with an orange-and-black patterned scarf
INTERVIEW: DR. PAYOSHNI MITRA

Dr. Payoshni Mitra, a researcher, activist and writer working on gender issues in sport in India with special emphasis on intersexuality…
By TARSHI Team
December 1, 2014
INTERVIEW: DR. PAYOSHNI MITRA
Interview: Debanuj Dasgupta on Immigration Rights
Debanuj Dasgupta sitting on a chair, speaking something. On bottom left of photo is written his name and designation "socialist and activist".
Interview: Debanuj Dasgupta on Immigration Rights

Debanuj DasGupta’s current activism and research travels take him through India, UK and the US focusing on issues of national security, migration, and embodied justice. In this (republished) interview, he chats with TARSHI about the issues of queering immigration.
By TARSHI Team
September 1, 2016
Interview: Debanuj Dasgupta on Immigration Rights
Interview: Debanuj DasGupta
Interview: Debanuj DasGupta
November 1, 2014
Interview: Debanuj DasGupta
Interview: Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani on Sexuality and Social Movements in Latin America
Interview: Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani on Sexuality and Social Movements in Latin America
November 1, 2015
Interview: Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani on Sexuality and Social Movements in Latin America
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