Shohini Ghosh, is Sajjad Zaheer Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. Her documentary Tales of the Night Fairies (2002), on the sex workers movement in Calcutta, made an important intervention in the debate on the decriminalization of sex work. She writes extensively on sexuality, cinema, censorship, documentary and issues concerning contemporary media.
Fire delves into the controversial film by Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, the first on lesbian love to have a commercial release in India. Set in a contemporary middle-class Hindu household in more...
