Book Review: ‘Thousand Dreams Within Me Softly Burn’ by Sahil Sood
Sahil Sood has paved the way for a fresh outlook on the nature of gay relationships in the queer genre, which, for most, is synonymous with mushiness, longing, death and loss.
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Book Review : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
TMOUH is primarily a story of margins and marginalized; the ones who are ‘misfit’ for the soceity, the dunya as Anjum rightly called it, where hegemonic majoritarian politics make identities like being Queer, Woman, Dalit, Adivasi, Muslim, Kashmiri, Drug Addict, Syrian Christian, Poor and Uneducated the easy target of unbridled and insatiable hatred.
Review: ‘The Tree Outside My Window is a Drama Queen’ by Avinash Matta
The sixty poems in The Tree Outside My Window is a Drama Queen are short pieces, and can be read in bursts. They coalesce around nature, and in contrast, technology. Often, Matta’s poems speak of gayness and its proscription in this country.
Movie Review: Shab – An Excellent Movie Dealing with Relationships
Whether it is heterosexual relationships or same-sex relationships, Onir imbues them with equal passion and dignity
Book Review: Coming Out.. Scribblings From The Heart
A collection of autobiographical notes written between 2012 and 2014, ‘Coming Out….Scribblings from the Heart’ gives the reader an insight into a closeted gay man’s life
What the year 2016 Meant for LGBTs in India and the World
2016 will be remembered for a lot of things- Trumps election, Modi's demonetisation. But what did the year bring for LGBTs?
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Review: Kapoor and Sons – A Leap Forward?
Is this just a one-time wonder or can we hope such positive portraits of LGBT characters in future as well?
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Review: Aligarh is More Than Just the Story of Prof. Siras
Aligarh is not just the story of Prof. Siras, it is the story of thousand of LGBTs who have to face discrimination, extortion and live under threats. It is the story of fear under which LGBTs live in this country.
Movie Review: Nirbashito (Bengali, 2015)
Churni Ganguly has already been a proven actress. This time she makes her directorial debut, with her film, ‘Nirbashito’, based on Taslima Nasreen’s banishmen... Read More...
Book Review: Selections from The Thousand Nights and a Night
“Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!”
And hence, glory be to the aforementioned book, translated by Sir R.F Burton.
The book i... Read More...
Book Review: My Magical Palace
The magical part about My Magical Palace is Kunal’s ease for storytelling and his ability to create a bygone era- the 1970’s Hyderabad in all its beauty and o... Read More...
Review: Crazy Cukkad Family – A wedding of substance
With a daring new perspective of looking at homosexuality, Crazy Cukkad Family signals at a new mentality that is being welcomed both by Bollywood and the Ind... Read More...