February 07, 2013By Minal Sarosh And if you are a woman you learn early, how to draw yourself in, and survive on very little water, in fact, a few drops of dew will do. Careful about smiles pulling them indoors if they happen to escape in the rain like errant children to dance, to soak, aimless paper boats. Wearing a […] October 17, 2012By Ketaki Chowkhani This time, last year, Kavya Krishnan, a PhD scholar in Cultural Studies had made a presentation of her important work on gender performance and dance. She had analysed how dance, specifically looking at Mohiniyattam in Kerala, becomes a site for gender performance and how it disciplines and orders the female body into certain gendered performances […] October 26, 2009By Aparna Singh ALL I KNEW WAS that this non-profit group called MARAA was organising some sort of performance on gender and sexuality. A friend told me about it and even offered to pick me up. Work lay unfinished on my table, but what the hell, I decided, I could always catch up later. And that’s how […] July 21, 2009By Priyanka Joseph
That girl at twenty- her black hair ripples through the comb in the pride of spring — such beauty! (sono ko hatachi kushini nagaruru kurokami no ogori no haru no utsukushiki kana) – Yosano Akiko, Midaregami: The Poetry of Yosano Akiko, 1952. 2005. THE L’OREAL SALON in Chennai. I was at the […] August 24, 2008By Annie Zaidi WHEN I WAS A KID, my favourite colour was red. I still remember a red silk dress I had, with thick silver trimming all over the bodice and sleeves. And if you’re a close friend of mine, you’ll probably have heard my little story about the huge tantrum I threw in Hazratgunj, Lucknow, once […] |
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