masculinity

Editorial: Friendship and Sexuality
Editorial: Friendship and Sexuality

The statement “We are just friends”, does it make you wonder? Just friends? As in – merely friends? As in…
By TARSHI
February 15, 2018
Editorial: Friendship and Sexuality
What the Sikh Turban Means to Masculinity in These Transnational Times
A close-up of the face of sikh man in a purple turban or dastar. Another person's hand pointing at his truban with a toothpick. Behind him are two other men in turban who are blurred out.
What the Sikh Turban Means to Masculinity in These Transnational Times

If the turban-tying ceremony represents the official rite of passage from Punjabi/Sikh boyhood into Punjabi/Sikh manhood, the practice of cutting unshorn hair upon arriving in Chandigarh signifies yet another (albeit unofficial) rite of passage from Punjabi/Sikh manhood into migrant manhood.
By Harjant Gill
September 15, 2016
What the Sikh Turban Means to Masculinity in These Transnational Times
What Happened to the Women Who Graduated from IITs in the ’90s?
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What Happened to the Women Who Graduated from IITs in the ’90s?

Several hundreds of women have presumably enrolled at India’s other IITs in the past 20 years, although none of these schools keep records of the gender of their students. Where did all these women go ‒ and why aren’t they leaders in Indian industry today?
By Curated Content
June 17, 2016
What Happened to the Women Who Graduated from IITs in the ’90s?
Story of an Odd Couple
A brunette child with curly hair looks in anger. Over the photo written in bold and caps in white colour, "All the problems in the world today, and you're mad 'cause my parents don't match?"
Story of an Odd Couple

True were his words that people will always talk, but why? What was so wrong with us? Was it because he was shorter and I was taller? Or was it because that when we hugged he was more in my embrace than me in his? Or was it that I had to bend a bit to kiss him? Strange how perceptions work about couples – no matter which identity one conforms to.
By Shivani Gupta
May 16, 2016
Story of an Odd Couple
इससे पोर्न (कामुक सामग्री) का क्या लेना देना? भारत में नारीवाद, यौनिकता, पोर्नोग्राफी और मर्दानगी
Two men hanging out on a side of a road, by their motorcycle. One wearing a blue tee sits on the motorcycle with his elbows on the handle. The other, in a blue shirt, stands resting his elbows on the first one's shoulder.
इससे पोर्न (कामुक सामग्री) का क्या लेना देना? भारत में नारीवाद, यौनिकता, पोर्नोग्राफी और मर्दानगी

 मैं अपनी एक अमेरिकन दोस्त के साथ बातचीत कर रहा था जो स्वयं को दूसरी लहर की नारीवादी मानती हैं…
By Harjant Gill
November 15, 2015
इससे पोर्न (कामुक सामग्री) का क्या लेना देना? भारत में नारीवाद, यौनिकता, पोर्नोग्राफी और मर्दानगी
Issue In Focus: What’s Porn Got To Do With It?
Two men hanging out on a side of a road, by their motorcycle. One wearing a blue tee sits on the motorcycle with his elbows on the handle. The other, in a blue shirt, stands resting his elbows on the first one's shoulder.
Issue In Focus: What’s Porn Got To Do With It?

During a recent conversation with an American friend who is a self-professed feminist of the second-wave variety and hence regards…
By Harjant Gill
November 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: What’s Porn Got To Do With It?
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility
Still from film 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns'. A woman and a man in a wedding. The man holds a baby wrapped in a white cloth in his arms. The woman wears a red Indian suit, red bangles, and has open hair. The man wears a red turban and golden kurta.
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility

What does Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015) have in common with Perumal Murugan’s controversial book, One Part Woman (2013)? Stories on emasculation…
By Shweta Krishnan
July 1, 2015
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility
Superman and Blackman: Two Queer Indulgences
picture of man dressed as superman lying down on a sofa, against a green background
Superman and Blackman: Two Queer Indulgences

#1 My computer desktop features one of the most recognizable icons of 21st century (Western) popular culture: Superman, in his…
By Oishik Sircar
October 1, 2014
Superman and Blackman: Two Queer Indulgences
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
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