Top 10 quotes from our Best of KASHISH panel
Team Culture Lab
3 February 2016
On Saturday, January 23, 2016, we hosted a celebration of queer cinema by partnering with the biggest queer film festival in South East Asia, KASHISH. Between screening the best films from around the world and India, we also hosted a power-packed panel discussion titled ‘Pride and Prejudice – Building Alliances for a Better Tomorrow’. The discussion explored the importance of straight allies in the movement for equal rights for people who identify as LGBT. The panel comprised veteran filmmaker Hansal Mehta, noted actor-director Nandita Das, screenwriter Gazal Dhaliwal and Festival Director of KASHISH, Sridhar Rangayan. Here are some pictures from the discussion and to watch the video click here. Below are the top 10 quotes from the discussion:
Continue ReadingMy two first encounters with Vikram Seth
Vandana Gupta
30 December 2015
I first stumbled upon Vikram Seth’s poetry in English Literature class some ten years ago.
Continue ReadingTop 5 blogs of 2015
Team Culture Lab
24 December 2015
We've invited writers, given young talent a platform, showcased campaigns the Lab has executed and much more in our blog section this year. Below are the Top 5 Blogs of 2015:
Continue ReadingTransgender allies at Godrej - I
Team Culture Lab
17 December 2015
Before our Dancing Queens event, (you can read about it here) key people and teams from across Godrej came forward to show their solidarity with the transgender community in their fight for equal rights. We called it the Godrej Transgender Ally Project, and the response we recieved was overwhelming. This is 'Part I' in the series. For the whole album click here.
Continue ReadingViva Vikram Seth, Viva Vikhroli!
Team Culture Lab
7 December 2015
Over the past weekend it was our honour to host the celebrated author and poet Vikram Seth at our Culture Lab and show him the magic of our Viva Vikhroli along with our friends at Godrej Archives and the GPL Design Studio! A special thank you to Mr. Nadir Godrej for making this happen, and to our dear friend Aradhana, for coming back to us in what is now her Vikhroli home, with her brother Vikram.
Continue ReadingTransgender allies at Godrej - II
Team Culture Lab
17 November 2015
Before our Dancing Queens event, (you can read about it here) key people and teams from across Godrej came forward to show their solidarity with the transgender community in their fight for equal rights. We called it the Godrej Transgender Ally Project, and the response we recieved was overwhelming. For the whole album click here.
Continue ReadingLGBT inclusion in Hindi cinema
Abhra Das
25 October 2015
On an average, the Hindi film industry releases about 200 films a year. However, even with so many movies being produced, there are only a handful that deal with LGBT themes or have significant queer characters in them.
Continue ReadingWandering Women, Wondering Man
Parmesh Shahani
9 September 2015
Each year, around Independence Day, our Culture Lab organizes a film festival called Indie-pendence Day, at which we celebrate the spirit of independent cinema from across our country. In 2013, we collaborated with NFDC for the first of these festivals and in the 2014 edition our partners were Films Division. This year, we decided to collaborate with the feminist website The Ladies Finger and organized a two-day documentary film festival at our new auditorium in Vikhroli, through which we explored multiple ideas, narratives and perspectives on feminism in India.
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