In April 2018, news of the the sexual violence committed against Asifa Bano, an 8 year old child from Kathua … More
Category: Reading Texts
Anushree Gupta: Confusing Boundaries
Digital technologies have made rapid progress in their engagement capacities, immersiveness and extent of influence in the last few decades. … More
Aastha Kumar: Fan/Geek Identity within the Cultural Economy of Fandom
Whether it is living in a constant state of binge-watching or engaging in casual fan talk about your favourite movies, … More
Trisha Rai: Representation of People with Disabilities in the Media
Questions of representation for any marginalised group often lead to more fundamental questions about assigned cultural meanings, visibility, lived experiences … More
Anantika Mehra: The Vindication of the Item-Number
Whenever we talk about item-numbers, we inevitably end up talking about the male gaze. But what can we learn from … More
Pallavi Khare: Racial Erasure in the Handmaids Tale: A Symbol of White America
The TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale has recently brought in a potent resurgence in the … More
Radhika Radhakrishnan: Feminist Perspectives on the Social Media Construction of Artificial Intelligence
In 2016, Microsoft released a machine-learning Twitter chat-bot, named ‘her’ Tay, and gave ‘her’ the personality of an 18- to … More
Anjali Chauhan: The Creation of a Fandom
Korean wave, commonly known as Hallyu is the spread of Korean culture in the rest of the world. American political … More
Kavya Chandel: Not so Innocent: A look into how Disney films portray gender
The name ‘Disney’ invokes colourful and innocent images of mickey mouse or Cinderella or more recently, the ice princess Elsa. … More
Prerna Mishra: Netflix, Binge Watching and the Construction of the (Female) Viewer
Practices of watching TV are changing as new modes of consuming TV are developed. Netflix has particularly been exemplary of … More
Vanita Ganesh: Looking at Comedy and Performance Through a Gender Lens
Comedy can be an entry point to understanding human behaviour, and to see the way contemporary socio-political ethos is understood … More
Rachel Alexander: Female Representation and Sexuality in Advertising
The advertising industry in the larger rubric of the society holds a rather critical space. It indulges in the very creation … More
Utpal Gore: Queering the lens: Alternate readings of popular Hindi cinema to locate Queerness in Bollywood
The role of popular media in how a community is perceived, either outside or from within that community, cannot be … More
Alpha Toppo: Performance of Gender and Sexuality
The question of women’s agency has been complicated in the music industry especially in pop and hip hop music. Women’s … More
Jyoti Nisha: What demands a sacrifice of a Bahujan body in India?
What’s common between a fisherman’s son Parshya from Nagraj Manjule’s film, Sairaat and the real life of a 24-year-old Pranay, … More
Vilo K Awomi: Fandom, Gender and Sexuality
The ‘Boy Love’ or BL fan fiction is a “subset of fan fiction which eroticices the homosexual bond between media … More