Remember Rituparno? – Garga Chatterjee
The acclaimed and recently deceased Bengali film-director Rituparno Ghosh (31 August 1963 – 30 May 2013), though a couple of decades older, went to the same school as me, the very populous South Point...
View ArticleA memory of summer – Shaleen Rakesh
(Photo courtesy: Pinterest) Feverish with youth still full of lust for the aftershave on his neck I met a boy he was beautiful all his demons displayed openly as fading scars he had a ruinous heart...
View ArticleJust us two – Shaleen Rakesh
You and I my friends my lovers walking in step forward and back stumble and recover from dad and mom from ketamine and dreams fall down and rise but we don’t surrender we don’t retreat it isn’t easy...
View ArticleThe long road ahead – Shaleen Rakesh
On 11 December 2013, the streets outside the Supreme Court of India thronged with a dazed crowd, hugging, sobbing and not quite sure what had happened. Inside the hushed courtroom, the judges had just...
View Articleरेशम (by Shaleen Rakesh)
मेरी पलकों के तले तितलियों के चित्र हैं हर बार जब आँखें झपकता हूँ रंग उड़ने लग जाते हैं एक धुन सी सुनायी देती है जागो तो, जाग जाओ जब हम मिले थे तब मैं घास पर रेशमी कीड़े सा, तुम्हें खोजता था तब पर नहीं...
View ArticleJudith Butler : Q & A with UBC Faculty
Published on Dec 20, 2012 Dr. Judith Butler has a follow-up discussion with UBC Faculty at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC after delivering the spring 2012 Wall Exchange lecture...
View ArticleScared to say Lesbian- eh?
Lesbian Feminist Film Maker re-writes Vogue Empower My Choice script which features Deepika Padukone. She also edits Homi’s video on her script. Angry and agitated with Deepika’s video the Film maker...
View Article“Waiting for Justice”, says the Indian Queer
Will the Queer community in India finally get justice in the apex court of India? Social Networking sites are abuzz today with the queer community anticipating some sense of justice to finally...
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