Posts Tagged ‘gender’

exploring gender and space in delhi metro…

09Jan09

all these pics are taken inside delhi metro cars… and they tell stories of spaces and genders… and often a single pic tends to tell multiple, even contradictory, stories…

this is not documentation… all the pics are constructed to tell the stories, like any other story telling medium… although by unaware actors…


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baul brityanto…

27Dec08

another year-end, another poush mela, and another bout of listening to baul-s and fakir-s from across bengal performing…
poush mela is this fair that takes place during 23-25th December in shantiniketan, with shops selling clay pots to tractors, coffee and pastries to state emporia… since high school days, one of the major attractions has been listening to the baul-s and fakir-s…


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cartography – geo/body/temporal

04Sep08

was thinking about cartography and power gained by having dominance over it… and was reminded of this picture i saw in a photo exhibition in my first sem in jnu… late 2006… oct or nov… it was titled ‘exploring masculinities’… up there is that pic…


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doris lessing – quote of the day

23Jul08

She would say: ‘Yes, Mr Rodde,’ and giggle and sit coyly on his bed to smoke a cigarette. Like a schoolgirl.


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sites and satrapi

01Apr08

[self-portrait as cyborg, aref adib] these websites i came across recently, and found interesting: doing beyond gender [not much archival richness yet, but promising] cittaslow international aref adib’s photography site alternative film guide ps: go buy marjane satrapi’s complete persepolis… brilliant… gloria steinem has this to say about d book: “You’ve never seen anything like […]


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