सेक्स और यौनिकता को लेकर हमारे समाज में बहुत सारी वर्जित बातें हैं – चाहे वो हस्तमैथुन के बारे में…
“Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise that I dance like I have diamonds at the…
In December TARSHI interviewed Anita Ratnam, who is a leading Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer based in Chennai. In her own…
“For every incarnation of Rama, there is a Ramayana”, says AK Ramanujam in his essay ‘Three Hundred Ramayanas’. So, too, there…
I just celebrated my twenty years in India last October and designed a performance for the occasion: ‘What is dance?’…
I started learning Bharatanatyam in 1988, when I was six years old. Looking back, it feels like beginning to learn…
[slideshow_deploy id=’4883′] This series of images captures a few Indian dance forms that have over time told stories of desire….
It is not entirely impossible to imagine that classical Indian dance is timeless or that the stories narrated in these…
I’ve been a sex worker for over 20 years. I’m a migrant sex worker based in Sydney, Australia but have…
Dr. Payoshni Mitra, a researcher, activist and writer working on gender issues in sport in India with special emphasis on intersexuality…
If a woman likes a man, she seduces him with her charm, wit and humour. This, I have seen, works….
The Sexuality of Migration speaks only to gay men from Mexico. It is reticent on the issues of other non-normative sexualities such…
Movement. Stillness. Travel. Free flow. Restrictions. Borders. Us and Them. Movement takes us closer to our destinations and sometimes forced…
Remember Simone de Beauvoir said, one is not born a woman but rather becomes one? A trip to the ladies’…