Featured Image by Katrien De Blauwer Dotted across the days of September, it has often felt like time is rushing through us. It keeps pouring in, the minutes finding themselves disintegrating into each other, and pours out with a swishing blur. These long drawled out visceral moments of knowing nothing really visceral is happening – … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: To Heal by Annie Louis articulates an immeasurable experience. It is about pain – a forceful pain precursory to a betrayal and the naivety that fades away with this realisation. Between these words, we find how strands of injustice-led pain, taint the corners of life. The manifesto of words and its ability to … Continue reading
Mehendi is a series that explores themes of Indian heritage, womanhood and art styles. It is a journey of self-discovery and appreciation for melanin-tinted skin, something I have begun to incorporate into my art lately. As a young 17 year old artist, I’ve been trying to diversify my art and explore my roots. I notice … Continue reading
Throughout history and mainstream media the glorification and sexualization of lesbians and bisexual women is ever present and sits on the verge of coming of age culture. The hyper-sexualization of queer women, especially femme embodying queer women drowns out the reality and authenticity of true intimate connections made by queer women. Fetishising girl-on-girl pornography has … Continue reading
Featured Image by Siddharth Sapre the kitchen in my ancestral home is my grandma’s fortress, home to the women and a guesthouse to the men in my family. 6:00 am knows my grandma’s morning face, her unpinned saree and tangled grey hair. stored in the creases of her palms are untold stories of her very … Continue reading
Featured Image by Ishani Das Deep slumber has met its end I get off my bed a black waterfall rises and falls beyond my shoulders a million streams of water dark as the night relish in their freedom just as I grab a hair tie tie them up and get to the day. Hours … Continue reading
By Shaily Mishra Shaily Mishra is a final-year undergraduate student of journalism at Kalindi College, Delhi University. She is a budding cinematographer who likes to be called a feminist visual storyteller. She mostly drifts around mining the repository of forgotten and underrated Indian Cinema or attempts to unclog her writer’s block. She can be found … Continue reading
Featured Images by Mithra Menon (Left) and Jay Mehta (Right) “Side de, side de,” shouted the bus conductor, almost unknowingly, like how one touches their face a hundred times per some seconds, thought Manish, too exhausted to fact-check, or, perhaps, too in a hurry to care enough. Well, meet Manish. A handsom- “Oh hello sir, … Continue reading
Featured Image by Jayalakshmi Rangarajan We’ve frequented this particular coffee shop for Sunday breakfast for as long as I can remember. Possibly even longer than that, considering Ma and Papa have been regulars here ever since they got married. The scrambled eggs on toast may have gradually shrunk over the decades, but my family’s loyalty … Continue reading
This is about reclaiming yourself as something that holds value even after being lost, broken, and quintessentially forgotten. Vintage here has been used as a metaphor for holding value. can you imagine that one day we cease to exist and all that’s left behind suddenly becomes of value maybe it’s the watch that your dad … Continue reading
