Consent And Coercion
The Editorial: Consent and Violence
Felicitations to us at TARSHI! As we turn 18 this month, the currently legal age of consent for sexual activity…
By TARSHI
February 1, 2014
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
Review: Good Times for Everyone: Sexuality Questions, Feminist Answers
[Editor’s note: When discussing consent and coercion, it is impossible to deny the shame and secrecy that surround issues of sexual…
By Artika Raj
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
Interview: Vidya Reddy
On Jan 1, 2014 when I met Vidya Reddy, one of TULIR’s co-founders, for an interview on consent among teenagers…
By Shweta Krishnan
February 1, 2014
February 1, 2014
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
I Column: Shades of Grey
Introduction: As this first-person account of Anita, a Devadasi in Maharashtra, Western India illustrates, issues of consent and violence/coercion cannot…
By Anita
February 1, 2014
February 1, 2014
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
February 1, 2014
Movies, Music and Conversations on Consent
Recently, social media was abuzz with Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”, a song and video that sparked many discussions on the…
By Manak Matiyani
February 1, 2014