Female body parts are an infinitely attractive take-off point for what sometimes passes off as feminist discourse. Naomi Wolf demonstrated it emphatically with her vagina, appropriating more mainstream column-inches than all simultaneous efforts to flag such exhausting issues as safe
Because the faculty of sight is continuous, because visual categories (red, yellow, dark, thick, thin) remain constant, and because so many things appear to remain in place, one tends to forget that the visual is always the result of an
Vulgar. Violence. Vibration. Voyeur. Vulva. We are not yet sure how to refer to the “private part” “down there”. But as Foucault says, it is important that we refer to it. It’s important to deconstruct the discourse around vagina
On a sunny day in the summer of mid nineties, I was cycling to my school. After a few kilometers from home, I was stopped by CRPF troops stationed near one of the bunkers on a street in Srinagar. They asked me
“… I am an emotional creature; things do not come to me as intellectual theories or hard-shaped ideas. They pulse through my organs and legs. And burn up my ears… There is a particular way of knowing. It’s like the
The need is to change the entire language of rape. Not to just call it a rape, but as rape by men. Not simply that a Dalit woman was raped, but a Dalit woman was raped by a Hindu upper-caste
Psy has surpassed every artist in history by attaining one billion views, but that alone is not instructive. The measure of greatness in Park Jae-sang remains in his consciousness-raising about capitalistic contradictions and imperialistic warmongering in undiluted terms. In a
The minorities have been forced into ghettos on the city’s outskirts. They are living with a sense of fear, compromise and surrender to the majority. This is not the story of Gaza. Overflowing drains, irregular water supply, malnourished children, women
Prologue In the seventh month of 2012, the world saw a square shaped man, with a moon shaped face follow his own style, and sing and dance. Through explosions, boat rides, sauna baths, curvaceous bottoms, white wigs, pink trousers and
Looks like, rape still continues to shock virtuous people in India. Or was it just this latest one? The one that took place in Delhi? Was it because the “izzat” of India’s capital city has now become the new concern?