The Power of Culture

In India, sexual harassment of women in public spaces is harmlessly referred to as eve-teasing. Artist and social activist Jasmeen Patheja takes umbrage to this euphemism.

Video halls in Uganda have a bad reputation. For a small fee, people can come to the shabby halls to watch a movie. However, they can also be seen as an important step towards a film culture.

Three queers starred at the Yogyakarta Arts Festival during a personal and realistic performance. Kusuma Ayu, Maria Alda Novka and Arum Marischa contributed a lot to the script, which represents their own life in many ways.

The lives of sex workers have been a subject of much scrutiny in popular culture in India. In the play My Mother, The Gharwali, Her Maalak, His Wife they tell their own story.

Indian music is generally associated either with Bollywood or classical Carnatic or Hindustani music. Little do people outside India know of the thriving rock/metal music culture that exists inside India, especially in the metropolises.

In a country where over three million people are infected with hiv Indian puppeteer Meena Naik uses her art to defy a societal taboo - talking to children about sex and aids.

Quietly, the Indonesian baby-boomers (generation '70-'80) have their own way to develop the economy.