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The artists commissioned by Rana Jagat Singh of Mewar in the mid-17th century to create an illustrated Ramayan certainly didn't mind putting a thick twirl on the upper lip of a blue-skinned Ram. To modern eyes, this 'version' of Ram looks more like Indrajit (Ravan's fine-looking and wonderfully named, but left unsurnamed son) than Ravi Varma's upstanding Citizen No. 1.
Gender metaphors of the female body, femininity, and motherhood have been used as tools of emotional appeal to project the socio-political and economic aspirations in the context of a Hindu nation.
Over the summer, Toronto-based Indian filmmaker Leena Manimekalai uploaded a poster on Twitter of her upcoming documentary Kaali. The image showed the
Protest can change everything. Which is why governments around the world want to suppress it. In a week when thousands in the US expressed their fury over Roe v Wade, we look back at some of the images that helped rewrite laws and change the way we think
Rahaab Allana considers the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories in a restless city.