Issue In Focus

Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists
Abract pastel sketches on white paper
Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists

The rabbit and the monster is a story about a baby rabbit all alone in a jungle trying to escape…
By Shikha Aleya
April 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: Rabbits, Monsters And Terrified Therapists
Issue in Focus: Women’s Sexuality is a Troubling Thing
Painting of a face with no emotions. It has brown skin, black hair, the background colour is red.
Issue in Focus: Women’s Sexuality is a Troubling Thing

… and the Award goes to… … Vasilyev’s wife … … for having birthed the maximum number of children. I…
By Shikha Aleya
March 1, 2015
Issue in Focus: Women’s Sexuality is a Troubling Thing
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery
A man sits leisurely with his legs on his chair in a theatre. The audience chairs are coloured red, and are numbered. Many more men who are out-of-focus in this picture sit in similar fashion in rows behind him, looking at the screen.
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery

I have great respect for Michel Foucault and his views on sexuality in our present era. While speaking on the…
By Sonia Soans
February 1, 2015
Issue in Focus: Sex And Modern Prudery
Dances of Desire: From Devadasis to Modern Storytellers
A man and a woman perform Kathakali on stage, wearing typical Kathakali costumes of red and white and elaborate headgear. A lamp is lit on the stage. Their makeup and dresses show beautifully in contrast to the darkened stage.
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
Dances of Desire: From Devadasis to Modern Storytellers
BEYOND THE SIMPLE FORMULAS
Illustration of a woman with her kids and a man with kids, joined together by hair and beard
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
BEYOND THE SIMPLE FORMULAS
DESIRE AGAINST DESIRE
Photo of a female protester holdingup the sign, "just had my first legal sex"
DESIRE AGAINST DESIRE

Post the historic Naz Foundation judgment of the Delhi High Court in July 2009, a prominent English news magazine carried…
By Oishik Sircar
December 1, 2014
DESIRE AGAINST DESIRE
ISSUE IN FOCUS: SEXUAL RIGHTS
An abstract drawing of a face, intertwined with different textures, animals like a bird and a snake, and trees.
ISSUE IN FOCUS: SEXUAL RIGHTS

It may be useful to visualize sexual rights as a large tree with deep roots and a vast canopy of…
By Radhika Chandiramani
December 1, 2014
ISSUE IN FOCUS: SEXUAL RIGHTS
Loitering while Female…
Picture of a street with a few kids milling about on bicycles
Loitering while Female…

When one travels as a woman or indeed as someone who is not an upper caste, middle or upper class,…
By Shilpa Phadke
November 1, 2014
Loitering while Female…
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions
Neenu Kewlani (centre), Gopika Anand (right) and Divya Arora. the winners of the first Miss Wheelchair India contest, decked up in colourful sarees and makeup
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions

… the heroine an amputee on a microprocessor controlled prosthetic leg with a hydraulic foot and ankle system raises her…
By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2014
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions
Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media
A cartoon illustration of a clitoris with a face drawn on it, the caption below it reads, 'making masturbation female friendly'
Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media

Five snippets from three months. In August, Indian actress Poonam Pandey dons a bikini for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge…
By Bishakha Datta
October 1, 2014
Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media
Sports: Hegemonic Masculinities And The Feminist Conundrum
A black and white picture of an all-male cricket team. They are dressed in white jerseys with green borders and white trousers. A few of them wear caps.
Sports: Hegemonic Masculinities And The Feminist Conundrum

As a teenager, I played tennis with friends, both male and female. Mostly we played with whoever was available to…
By Shweta Krishnan
September 1, 2014
Sports: Hegemonic Masculinities And The Feminist Conundrum
Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!
In Plainspeak English Audit In Plainspeak English Audit 100% 10 A black and white phioto of a woman looking straight into the camera. She has short hair, and has piercings over her eyebrows and below her lower lip. She is wearing kohl and has a tattoo on her arm. Screen reader support enabled. A black and white phioto of a woman looking straight into the camera. She has short hair, and has piercings over her eyebrows and below her lower lip. She is wearing kohl and has a tattoo on her arm.
Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!

The Union Budget, 2014 presented by the newly elected government a few weeks ago includes various provisions for disabled persons…
By Rupsa Mallik
August 1, 2014
Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!
Art and Activism: Strange bedfellows?
Art and Activism: Strange bedfellows?
July 15, 2014
Art and Activism: Strange bedfellows?
Art & Activism
Photo of performance artist and theatre personality Maya Krishna Rao. She is wearing black and her left hand raised in a dramatic pose. She has long white hair and there is a red bindi on her forehead.
Art & Activism

Some propositions:  Nothing ‘activates’ like art. (I’ll speak here of theatre). It can touch, stir the senses, the head, the…
By Maya Krishan Rao
July 1, 2014
Art & Activism
Desire Against Desire
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Desire Against Desire

Post the historic Naz Foundation judgment of the Delhi High Court in July 2009, a prominent English news magazine carried…
By Oishik Sircar
June 1, 2014
Desire Against Desire
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