First published on The State Magazine on 10 July 2013 Toilets: we need them as we all pee and shit. It seems as if our most basic homeostatic functions exist outside of time and space, abiding by their own internal laws. This article, however, is about the laws that are external to the corporeal vessel:… Continue reading Mapping gender in public toilets of the non-Western world
Tag: India
Latter day Victoriana: Drawing similarities between Compulsion and Bride and Prejudice
Crossposted on Feminist Review. The repressive, corseted Victorian culture of the novel found a perfect foil in the rigid caste strictures of Indian society. (The Times, 27 April 2009) Nesrine Malik’s scathing review of the ITV drama Compulsion got me thinking a lot more about modern day adaptations of pre-20th century literary works featuring ethnic… Continue reading Latter day Victoriana: Drawing similarities between Compulsion and Bride and Prejudice
Weekend round-up of favourite online reads 11/1
My current obsession with feminist science fiction led me to brilliant reviews of Vandana Singh’s The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet at both The F-Word and Ultrabrown. In my earlier post on Islam and feminism in SF I mentioned a few times about how the genre is used to critique some grand narratives… Continue reading Weekend round-up of favourite online reads 11/1
A (post)colonial love story
Read this today and nearly puked: “Ours is a classic story of forbidden love, elopement, family estrangement and reconciliation. People say it’s so romantic,” says Englishman Tim Wallace from the veranda of his home in the town of Tura in north-east India. “People say it’s so romantic”, he says. Honestly, I hate stories like this,… Continue reading A (post)colonial love story
Oh dear…
Originally posted part of the ‘Bollywood Nights’ series at The Guardian: “The most God-awful film I have ever seen in any genre, anywhere in the world” Nirpal Dhaliwal reviews ‘The Last Lear‘, the latest in the emerging English-language Bollywood film industry, starring the ubiquitous Amitabh Bachan. You’d think that Shakespeare and Bollywood would be made… Continue reading Oh dear…
Bringing post-colonial analysis into our homes: The Indian restaurant
An excerpt from ‘Introducing Cultural Studies’ by Ziauddin Sardar: The Indian restaurant can be a useful model to study the history and legacy of post-colonialism. By studying its many symbols (name, food, location, patrons), we can have some ideas about how the race and cultures of the Other can be perceived within the context of… Continue reading Bringing post-colonial analysis into our homes: The Indian restaurant
The tackiness and insensitivity that is Vogue India
This was originally posted on The New York Times website: NEW DELHI — An old woman missing her upper front teeth holds a child in rumpled clothes — who is wearing a Fendi bib (retail price, about $100). A family of three squeezes onto a motorbike for their daily commute, the mother riding without a… Continue reading The tackiness and insensitivity that is Vogue India
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