Review
Freak Shows: Looking at Human Bodies on Exhibit
No two human bodies are alike, and our different bodies arouse curiosity. But our fascination for the aesthetics of the perfect human body has historically created a space within art, science and religion for the examination of the ‘abnormal’ and the ‘imperfect’. As a result, some bodies are normalised while others become oddities.
By Shweta Krishnan
May 1, 2014
Review: No More Deaths Because of Unsafe Abortion – Information is Just a Call Away
Every year more than 15,000 women die because of post partum haemorrhage and every day 10 women die because of unsafe abortion in Pakistan. If you know a woman who does not have access to hospital at the time of delivery or who wants to access safe abortion, then contact on the number provided.
By Saba Ismail
Reel Review – Revolutionary Road
To their neighbours, as to themselves, Frank and April Wheeler are ‘special’.
By Asilata Karandikar
April 1, 2014
‘Justice is Not Spectator Sports’ – Reflections on One Billion Rising for Justice
Irom Sharmila, a civil rights activist from Manipur began a hunger strike in November, 2000 which is still going on….
By Rupsa Mallik
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
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
January 1, 2014
Reel Review: Tomboy – Innocent, Subversive, Powerful
Celine Sciamma’s ‘Tomboy’, is a brilliantly woven tale that dissolves rigid gender and sexual boundaries and defies quite a few…
By Parigya Sharma
January 1, 2014
Review: The Yellow Book
After the endless media coverage of the horrific gangrape in December 2012, words like rape, sex, vagina and so on…
By Mad Momma
December 1, 2013