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When Transparency Meets Fluidity, Dance Is Born
I just celebrated my twenty years in India last October and designed a performance for the occasion: ‘What is dance?’…
By Gilles Chuyen
January 1, 2015
A Lingering Tingle
I started learning Bharatanatyam in 1988, when I was six years old. Looking back, it feels like beginning to learn…
By Aniruddan Vasudevan
January 1, 2015
Reel Review: Memoirs of a Geisha
The Hollywood rendition of the Geisha world, with Edward Said’s Orientalism [1] thrown in, reminds us of a simple fact: things…
By Jasmine George
January 1, 2015
Brushstrokes: Desire In Dance
[slideshow_deploy id=’4883′] This series of images captures a few Indian dance forms that have over time told stories of desire….
By Curated Content
January 1, 2015
Dances of Desire: From Devadasis to Modern Storytellers
It is not entirely impossible to imagine that classical Indian dance is timeless or that the stories narrated in these…
By Shweta Krishnan
January 1, 2015
सॉन्ग्स ऑफ द कैरवेन: भारत में ट्रान्स्जेंडर लोगों का पहला आडियो एल्बम
संगीत की भाषा सार्वभौमिक है। यह वर्ण, जाति तथा लिंग इत्यादि से भी परे है। संगीत सभी का है। कुछ…
By Anubhav Gupta
Let India Make Cheap Drugs
David Singh Grewal and Amy Kapczynski for The NY Times Last month, the United States and India announced an important…
By Curated Content
December 15, 2014
REVIEW: ‘BOUND TO BE FREE’
‘Bound to be Free’ is a travelling exhibition of exquisitely shot personal and professional photographs, making its way from New…
By Neha Naqvi
December 1, 2014
BEYOND THE SIMPLE FORMULAS
‘Woman? It’s simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female –…
By Shweta Krishnan
December 1, 2014
और जन्म हुआ गज़ल का !
तारशी की ईमैगज़ीन इन प्लेनस्पीक में हम इस महीने ‘बॉडी इमेज’ या शारीरिक छवि पर बात करेंगे। बॉडी इमेज वह…
By Nirantar
December 1, 2014
The Editorial: Anniversary Issue
We are one year old! Yes, In Plainspeak has been publishing articles from around the Global South, especially India and…
By TARSHI
December 1, 2014
PROVIDING SEXUAL SERVICES TO CLIENTS WITH DISABILITY
I’ve been a sex worker for over 20 years. I’m a migrant sex worker based in Sydney, Australia but have…
By Rachel Wotton
December 1, 2014
Reel Review: Blue Is The Warmest Color
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