Pinki Pramanik stands a burning testimony to the collective brutality of the state-society-media complex. Each one of us is implicated in the brutalities inflicted on her. Starting with her arrest on charges of rape, her repeated humiliation in the hands
What is the legal, cultural and sociopolitical import of the Supreme Court judgement? Why is it not just about a “miniscule” group? Explains Rukmini Sen. November, 2013 was my first participation in a Queer Pride March in New Delhi,
This was supposed to be an interview but while transcribing the conversation; it seemed the questions were mere interruptions. Here’s a journey of an LBT (lesbian, bisexual women and transmen) support group through the eyes of one of its founder
Why and how are we all queer? By Brinda Bose. *In January 2014, a young female lawyer in Kerala received a show-cause notice followed by a month’s suspension from the Bar Association she belonged to, as punishment for a Facebook
Recent incidents of self-immolation by Tibetans may have weakened their movement for freedom, by causing severe loss to life without causing much of a dent in the Chinese occupation. The movement needs to be re-imagined, if it has to sustain itself, opines
Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal traces the politically engendered ruptures in the natural movements and historical associations of food in the Kashmir region, leading to a story of prolonged deprivation in a land of plentiful natural resources. You are what you eat,
Grant Achatz is a giant of the culinary world. He is a Beethoven, creating grand symphonies of taste and flavour… but he shares something else, something almost tragic, with the great classical composer. He spoke to Nidhi Dugar about his
Food is politics. Food is identity. Food is identity politics – especially when it comes to ‘taboo’ foods. Monidipa Mondal zooms in on the identity statements people intend to make when they break food taboos, the ones others choose to
Saswat Pattanayak interrogates the politics of food, in its various manifestations, which doubly victimise people who lack adequate access to high quality food – because of their gender, disability, class or any other marginal status – by blaming them for
Contrary to the revised emotions from electoral pundits and wild psephologists, Delhi elections have not ushered in any new kind of empowering politics for India. Poll results have merely sided with populism, the central tenet in the politics of