Interview

Interview with ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava
Still from "Lipstick Under My Burkha", showing actress Ratna Pathak Shah in a lingerie store
Interview with ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava

Alankrita Shrivastava made her directorial debut with the film ‘Turning 30!!!’ (2011) and has been committed to telling stories about women from a woman’s perspective. Her second and most recent film ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ (2016) has received international recognition and is slated to release in India in early 2017.
By Anjora Sarangi
January 5, 2017
Interview with ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava
Interview : Arvind Narrain
Interview : Arvind Narrain

JG: As a founder member of The Alternative Law Forum (ALF) you have engaged with conventional law and at the…
By Jasmine George
June 1, 2014
Interview : Arvind Narrain
Interview – This is what you bring to the table!
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Interview – This is what you bring to the table!

In this write up, we’d like to share a sense of what emerges from a compilation of these responses. This is based on the thoughts and feelings that come through for those of us here at In Plainspeak who have had the joy of reading the original responses as they came in to us. (Some of the quotations that follow have been slightly edited for flow and to help connect themes.) We know that most things in the realm of art, information and ideas lend themselves to a wide range of inferences and insights depending on the individuals making the inferences.
By Shikha Aleya
March 1, 2022
Interview – This is what you bring to the table!
Interview – Sunil Gupta
Artist Sunil Gupta stands infront of a wall which has two framed photos of his family. He has greying hair and is wearing a patterned woolen sweater.
Interview – Sunil Gupta

Sunil Gupta is an artist, activist, and a curator, based in London UK. In this interview, he talks to Manak…
By Manak Matiyani
July 1, 2014
Interview – Sunil Gupta
Interview – Suchitra Dalvie
A front profile of Dr. Suchitra Dalvie.
Interview – Suchitra Dalvie

Getting to know who I really am has been a game changer. Prejudice, anger, control and violence all emerge from fear.
By Shikha Aleya
May 16, 2024
Interview – Suchitra Dalvie
Interview – Srila Roy
photograph of Prof Srila Roy leaning against a wall with her hands folded
Interview – Srila Roy

“Questions of difference should not be a cause for despair. There are examples from history and our own lives that show how we can connect across difference and stand in solidarity with one another…”
By Shikha Aleya
December 12, 2022
Interview – Srila Roy
Interview – Sadhana Vohra
A photo of Sadhana Vohra.
Interview – Sadhana Vohra

Sadhana Vohra is a psychotherapist in private practice in New Delhi, India. She divides her time between long hours at…
By Radhika Chandiramani
January 11, 2024
Interview – Sadhana Vohra
Interview – Prarthana Prasad
A photo of Prarthana sitting on a chair in front of a white Ambassador car. Prarthana is in formal business wear.
Interview – Prarthana Prasad

Entertainment should aim to inspire, comfort, reflect and express. Even if something violent earns big at the box office, it doesn’t justify its creation.
By Shikha Aleya
February 15, 2024
Interview – Prarthana Prasad
Interview – Prakash
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Interview – Prakash

“I feel that connection is the survival language of the LGBTQIA+ community. The sense of a common struggle makes way for developing quick yet lasting connections among the community…”
By Shikha Aleya
November 15, 2022
Interview – Prakash
Interview – Parmesh Shahani
Parmesh Shahani speaking at LOUD 2024 at SIBM Pune.
Interview – Parmesh Shahani

The larger question is, who gets to bring all of themselves to the workplace, and who is either not allowed, or feels scared, or is bullied for doing so?
By Shikha Aleya
September 18, 2024
Interview – Parmesh Shahani
Interview – Madhu Mehra – Part 2
Interview – Madhu Mehra – Part 2

I think that the level of power that law makers, opinion builders and stakeholders wield over the more vulnerable and younger people in society is enormous. Yet, these actors have chosen to focus only on building a policy regime of sexual violence, even to the extent of allowing juvenile offenders to be treated as adult accused – without any corresponding effort to build a sex positive culture within which they may exercise agency.

By Shikha Aleya
July 16, 2018
Interview – Madhu Mehra – Part 2
Interview – Kiran Deshmukh
Meena Seshu squatting on the floor as an older woman sitting on the floor caresses her on the cheek. Several women stand around them, looking on. Seshu is wearing a purple kurta, and the older woman wears a yellow saree.
Interview – Kiran Deshmukh

किरण देशमुख वैम्प प्लस की अध्यक्ष हैं। हमने एचआईवी एवं यौनिकता के विषय पर किरण के साथ ईमेल के द्वारा…
By TARSHI Team
December 15, 2015
Interview – Kiran Deshmukh
Interview – Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani
A photo of Ketaki Chowkhani standing at a podium and dressed in a sari.
Interview – Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani

I feel that parents, teachers and CSE can make room for these disparate realities of adolescents by first acknowledging the limits of formal sexuality education, that the curriculum imparted formally fails in providing the kind of learning that happens through other sources.

By Shikha Aleya
December 18, 2024
Interview – Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani
Interview – Deena Mohamed
Interview – Deena Mohamed

Deena Mohamed, Egyptian artist, illustrator and designer, speaks to us about her art and her perspective on politics, patriarchy, feminism, and gender and sexuality.

By Shikha Aleya
December 3, 2018
Interview – Deena Mohamed
Interview – Chand
A photo of Chand dressed in a red sari with a white blouse, holding a mike on a stage and reading out from their phone.
Interview – Chand

Safe spaces in the way that they often circulate are depoliticised and the assumption is that there won’t be any conflicts, but there can be no safe space without an exchange of ideas, which will create some bad feelings leading to conflict.
By Akshita Singh and Pragya Solanki
November 19, 2024
Interview – Chand
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