Culture
The much talked-about exhibition was a fitting documentation of the country’s milestones that impacted the global imagination through two parallel, carefully curated narratives — the story of fashion and a visual referencing of India in its scenographies
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Badhaai Do has brought up a familiar discourse around non-heterosexual narratives in mainstream Hindi cinema with its portrayal of a lavender marriage between a gay cop and a lesbian PT Teacher. Madhavi Menon, professor of English at Ashoka University and author of The Law of Desire: Rulings on Sex and Sexuality in India, speaks to J. Shruti about reading queerness into Indian films, and why she is suspicious of mainstream queer representation
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Matteo Guarnaccia, founder of the research project Cross Cultural Chairs, wonders what this innocuous piece of furniture can reveal about changing societies. Verve reports on those that he is designing as part of this latest undertaking
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Check out Brown History, the Instagram page that's turning into an important resource on the subject
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Co-founder Roshan Abbas on the significance of storytelling and the new formats they've innovated for the festival this weekend
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From a new wave of films to a new era of inclusivity and courage, it's been a landmark year in many ways
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