Body Image
Of Green Tea, Weight Loss, and Living As #PCOS4Ever
“You know, most healthy girls get this disorder if they don’t lose weight easily,” chimed my high school best friend…
By Noopur Raval
October 1, 2015
The Editorial: Body and Sexuality
In one sense, the body is what I immediately am. In another sense, I am separated from it by the…
By TARSHI
June 17, 2015
Brushstrokes
[slideshow_deploy id=’6065′] The following photographs question our notions of beauty and an ‘ideal’ body. Rahul Saharan shot a series of…
By Curated Content
June 1, 2015
Of Curvy Women And Rugged Men: The Endless Search For ‘Ideal’ And ‘Desirable’ Bodies
By Shambhavi Saxena This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz. Various forms of media have…
By Curated Content
BEING THIN… BEING ME
Which one of these is the right question to ask myself: When was the first time I realised I was…
By Ekta Oza
December 1, 2014
December 1, 2014
How Scarlett Johansson Helped me Challenge Disfigurement Stigma
Adam Pearson was born with a condition that causes tumours to grow on his face. But acting with Scarlett Johansson in ‘Under the Skin’ is changing the way people look at him.
By Curated Content
Beauty is The Beast: How Women Let Their Looks Matter
The young Suchitra Sen – then plain Krishna Dasgupta – apparently once sat on a school bench and announced that she would be remembered long after her death. An ordinary middle class girl who was one of nine siblings, and an average student bereft of any artistic talent, all Sen had was her looks. But apparently, that was enough. “She was conscious of her great beauty… and behaved as if she… deserved every bit of the natural selection,” wrote Susmita Dasgupta in a thoughtful Facebook note.
By Curated Content
May 1, 2014
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
Issue In Focus: Body Image is a Mind Thing
This is not a cautionary fable about censorship and its excesses, but an exploratory essay on body image, using breasts as a starting point.
By Bishakha Datta
May 1, 2014
Too Big
Why do we always assume that violence is done to us by someone else and not that we do it to ourselves quite easily and then have a million explanations to justify why we do not eat, why we use Fair and Lovely face cream, why we spend hours in the gym under duress, and why we focus incessantly on how much one has gained or lost in kilos and not in a metaphysical sense?
By Pramada Menon
May 1, 2014