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September 08, 2009By 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 [...] Tags: bollywood, Dev.D | Category: Art, Desipundit, Love, Morality, Popular Culture, Relationships, Sex and Sexuality |
August 18, 2008By Meena Kandasamy DR RUTH VANITA (b.1955), is a renowned academic and author specializing in lesbian and gay studies. Some of her acclaimed books include Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society (2002), Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (2005), and Gandhi’s Tiger and Sita’s Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and [...] Tags: bollywood, cinema, feminism, homosexuality, India, Left, lesbianism, LGBT, pride parades, queer rights, same-sex love, suicides, transgenders, women's movement | Category: Books, Culture, Morality, Sex and Sexuality, Society |
October 17, 2007By Anindita Sengupta DIRECTOR PRADEEP Sarkar seems to be suffering a hangover from his earlier movie Parineeta, which was based in pre-Independence times. What else can explain his deplorably regressive ideas and sensibilities in Laaga Chunari Mein Daag? For while the film vociferously proclaims its understanding of the “quintessential modern Indian woman”, its storyline falls back on simplistic [...] Tags: bollywood, film, hindi movie, laaga chunari mein daag, Prostitution | Category: Popular Culture, Prostitution, Sex and Sexuality |
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