Bollywood stardom has always seemed head-swivellingly divine. Actually, such romantic personas are shaped by reality, chance and calculation.
On screen, as in life, the many-splendoured thing makes us want to identify with the other
SRK’s persona evokes the kind of Indianness that denies categorisation into singular, exclusive identities. And thrives on making others feel welcome.
Not taste and aesthetics, but class and power draw the line between porn and erotica. Exploitation happens everywhere in the world of real-world sex—not just in porn.
The digital age has held up a salad bowl of the sexual. Paromita Vohra looks at the polyphonic eco-system of desire and custom of young, ‘liberated’ Indians.
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