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August 26, 2010

The weight of silence

By Guest Contributor

By Divya Rajan

Your scarf spoke nine tongues.
I failed to know the purpose, seek the language
of splinters, shards, lazy salsas.
I thought the skies bowed to you even
as they turned mauve. Awe
filled my lungs, I breathed.
Shards slow danced, I felt your smile.
It smelt of something else.
Your ducking shadows traded with liquid limelight.
*******
“You were born to silence”, sang [...]

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August 13, 2010

On Roman Polanski

By Guest Contributor

By Sreeparna Chattopadhyay
ROMAN POLANSKI is a free man. The Swiss government refused to extradite him to the US. Does a crime committed by an Oscar winning director cease to be a crime? Should Roman Polanski be treated any differently because he is the director of The Pianist? Does the fact that he raped and [...]

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May 12, 2010

Two poems

By Guest Contributor

By Trisha Bora

The Lonely Grave of Paula Schultz
Tonight, there’s been a burial.
A careless hammering of nails into a dry casket –
by men drunk on moonshine – breaks the night,
scattering the weevils and owls into the rising moon.
They’ve taken my words, my amour, my knife and
left me here to fill the lonely grave of Paula Schultz.
This [...]

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April 30, 2010

To be or not to be: On Queer Nazariya

By Guest Contributor

By Raheema Begum
I JUST ATTENDED the Queer Nazariya film festival in Bombay and I loved the experience. In the discussion about queer communities, law and culture, Ponni Arasu, a gay rights activist from Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, spoke of the need for the queer community in India to redefine itself and its goals after the [...]

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January 19, 2010

Two Poems

By Guest Contributor

By Janice Pariat

Bertha & I
Tonight I feel like Bertha Mason
with a fire and sadness in my soul.
I pace my room – this attic of madness –
it keeps me sane. I think it keeps me
whole, somehow. There’s no breeze
through the window, just an empty
vastness of night and shadow and
half-lights. And the knock on my door,
well, it [...]

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January 13, 2010

Queer Film Fest: Call for submissions

By Anindita Sengupta

THE BANGALORE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL (BQFF 2010) is calling for submissions. The deadline is 30 January 2010. Details here.
The festival will be held at the Alliance Francaise de Bangalore on 26, 27 and 28 February 2010.
The BQFF 2010 is a non-ticketed free event aimed at providing a venue to screen films based on themes related [...]

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November 19, 2009

Thoughts on Eve Ensler’s “I am an Emotional Creature”

By Dilnavaz Bamboat

THE AUDIENCE WAS FLUSH WITH estrogen, but had a heartening dose of the Y chromosome. I wondered if the cocktail reception that preceded the event was a marketing ploy or a genuine attempt to fortify our spirits for what was to come. I found out soon enough.
The world premiere of Eve Ensler’s ‘I Am An [...]

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November 08, 2009

Storm in a T-Cup & The Language of Experience

By Sharanya Manivannan

PENELOPE TRUNK CAUSED A tremendous controversy when she Tweeted about her miscarriage (and the fact that she was glad she didn’t have to wait for an abortion, which is difficult to get in her part of the USA). I found the controversy ridiculous on many levels – after all, many people share personal information online [...]

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September 17, 2009

If You’re in Delhi…

By Dilnavaz Bamboat

…YOU MAY WANT TO take a look at this invite:

Anyone want to get me that yummy t-shirt in red? 

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September 08, 2009

Dev.D through the Gender Prism

By Guest Contributor

By Aditi Srivastava

“In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic [...]

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