Reclaim the Day and Take Back the Night
Just as the International Fortnight to protest Violence Against Women winds up this year, Qafe goes…
Urban Indian Crimescape
In this edition of ‘Qafe’ Paramita Banerjee interrogates certain aspects of urban living in India especially its…
When Pigs Fly
In this edition of Qafe, Paramita Banerjee trains her gaze on the dirt that Modi’s brooms…
A Chicken and Egg Puzzle – Almost!
This month Paramita Banerjee muddles some notions around sex work. Read on! With the annual festivities…
Whose side are we on?
The inefficient applicability of Section 498A has given rise to the well-orchestrated illusion that most of…
Pride, Prejudice and Paradox: An ‘Enqueery’ into two Supreme Court Verdicts
Queering the ‘queer’ verdicts of the Supreme Court (11 December, 2013 and 15 April 2014), Paramita…
Qafe and the Qafeteer
Queer. The dictionary defines the term as ‘funny’, ‘surprising’, ‘odd’, ‘perplexing’ and so on. In a…