RAJYASHRI GOODY ON HER ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND THE CASTE POLITICS OF FOOD
TEAM CULTURE LAB
25 July 2020
Artist Rajyashri Goody spoke to our #CultureLabFellows2020 about food, caste and resistance in a thought provoking and poetic session as part of our masterclass series. Read on for take-aways from the session.
Continue ReadingPrathyush on Camus, Kabir Singh and Kama Sutra: film criticism and the internet
TEAM CULTURE LAB
17 July 2020
Last week, we hosted film critic Prathyush Parasuraman from Film Companion to talk to all of us about why he became a writer, questions that the community of film critics is grappling with and the new forms sex, censorship and certification take in the era of streaming content.
Continue ReadingWrithing Queerness; Writing Queerness: Brian Horton on Nightlife, Pride, and the Queer Commons
Team Culture Lab
9 July 2020
We hosted cultural anthropologist and Brandeis professor Dr. Brian A. Horton for our first masterclasses with the Fellows as well as some of our Lab alums. Read about it here!
Continue ReadingFeminist Histories of Science
TEAM CULTURE LAB
9 July 2020
Through the month of July, we will be exploring the breakthroughs led by women in science, and the collective pleasures, possibilities and perils of doing science in India with our event ‘Mission Possible: Breakthroughs of Indian Women in Science’. We looked back at the women who changed the world of science and initiated feminist discourse and dialogue but were hardly if ever acknowledged for their contributions to the evolution of our collective human journey.
Continue ReadingPride Month 2020!
Team Culture Lab
24 June 2020
Pride Month 2020 has us looking back on some important takeaways from Pride Months past - check out the videos we've picked and keep reading to find out how you can show your support and allyship this month.
Continue ReadingMumbai as the protagonist in pop culture
Rohan Bhide and Aditya Talpade
17 June 2020
Fellows Rohan and Aditya took us through their favourite depictions of Mumbai through video games, comics, film and TV, and we tried to figure out if any pattern emerged from these narratives.
Continue ReadingCaste and Pop Culture
Kshiti S.V. and Prateek Gupta
16 June 2020
Fellows Kshiti and Prateek presented to us about the ways in which caste privilege has shaped popular culture today. They write about how music, fashion, film and desire are not innocent of ideas of purity and pollution, which are widely held in a society informed by caste discrimination.
Continue ReadingSpatial justice and the city
Ambika Lambah and Kshiti Vikas
12 June 2020
Fellows Ambika and Kshiti look at access to the city through various lenses - migration, gentrification, ghettoisation and gendered notions of what it means to loiter.
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