Food and Sexuality
Within its realm, each artwork embodies an emblematic act that accompanies the intricate ritual of food: hunger, gathering, fire, serving, devouring and, ultimately, nourishing.
समाज में स्वीकृत शादियों को एक तरह से यौनिकता के जश्न के तौर पर देखा सकता है, कम से कम यौनिकता के उन पहलुओं का जिन्हें समाज जायज़ मानता है – जैसे समाज-स्वीकृत यौन संबंध और प्रजनन।
दो साल, कई लेज़र ट्रीटमेंट्स और एक थोड़ी-बहुत ‘स्वस्थ’ ज़िंदगी जीने की कोशिश के बाद भी मेरे लक्षण अभी भी ‘क़ाबू में’ नहीं आए हैं। लेकिन अब मैं इस बात पे संतुष्ट होने लगी हूं कि मुझसे जितना हो पाया, मैंने अपने शरीर के लिए उतना किया।
Watch the romantic story of a Bengali couple to find out if Geetu will be successful in her passionate mission to fulfil the desire of her husband Amit.
Stop everything! I have a condition that you must follow before you read any further, before you consume what I’ve…
There are hundreds of mukbangers and flood vloggers in India, with individuals earning lakhs of rupees through just eating delicious, and sometimes weird, food. However, those mukbang creators who do not follow stereotypical ideas of gender, caste and class meet with differential treatment.
Food is some sort of extension of our bodies, our identities, and therefore food and sexuality intersect in a myriad ways.
“Life’s too small without freshly cut coriander
Generously sprinkled on kadhai chicken.
Mint leaves blitzing their way with tomatoes
Ripe from the vine to the fingers dripping chutney –
Fragrances of earth between all this concrete.”
So why do we have to have fixed notions of gender roles and food?
Food unites, but as we are sadly witnessing, it also divides. What people eat and how they eat it is related in many ways to class, caste, purchasing power, and other factors of social currency and control.
Indian films have for long fed into as well as mirrored social and cultural practices. Many of them depict a woman as being restricted to the kitchen and serving delicacies during festivities.
This art collection bears the evocative title “Aching Palates”. Within its realm, each artwork embodies an emblematic act that accompanies…
Through the rituals of cooking, prayers and sharing our complaints of menstruating, we came together to give space and hold space for each other.