Shootings in Kabul
The many obstacles of videography in an Afghan wedding hall.
Taran N Khan | Dec 31, 2015
The wedding march
For many employed in wedding bands in Nepal, the job is a quiet resignation to the lack of opportunities.
Paavan Mathema | Dec 30, 2015
On how to be a woman
How the missing sindoor in my hair provoked unwelcome attention from a complete stranger
Jyoti Singh | Dec 29, 2015
An unjust war
‘Love Jihad’ and honour killings are strategies to quell challenges to caste, class and gender conventions.
Neha Dixit | Dec 27, 2015
Where will all the young queers go?
Despite legal reforms, Nepal’s societal mores continue to constrain daily lives and freedoms of sexual and gender minorities.
Danny Coyle | Dec 23, 2015
The importance of being honest
BOOK EXTRACT: A gay man comes out to his father in 1980s India.
Siddharth Dube | Dec 23, 2015
Far from truth
On the policing of sexuality of migrant workers’ wives in Nepal.
Weena Pun | Dec 23, 2015
No going back
India’s first gay memoir shows how guarded gay people have to be, and how terribly isolated this makes them.
Aditi Angiras | Dec 22, 2015
The battle of Kikrüma
How a single Naga village took on the British Empire
Jelle J P Wouters | Dec 15, 2015
In the shadow of Shanta’s absence
A conversation with filmmakers in Kathmandu
Taran N Khan | Dec 11, 2015
A play with the third
Voyeurs, partners and shadow presences in Indian narratives of marriage.
Lora Tomas | Dec 10, 2015
Dust to dust in Goa
How mining in Goa has destroyed the environment and community life.
Sunalini Kumar | Dec 09, 2015
Common code, uncommon challenges
Does the debate on the Uniform Civil Code in India uphold a majoritarian value system?
Flavia Agnes | Dec 05, 2015
Unnatural acts
Section 377, or India’s anti-sodomy law, as Shakespearean comedy.
Danish Sheikh | Dec 01, 2015
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