Tag - representation

Description: Three children play under a spotlight against the background of a large, purple book. One of them dances, holding blue pom poms, and wearing a prosthesis on one of their lower legs. The second stands with their back to us, holding a walker. The third sits on the floor, wearing headphones attached to a device. The turquoise background features speech bubbles.

Children’s literature in India has to do a better job of telling stories about disability

The image shows a figure wearing black standing to the right of the frame, their arms slightly outstretched. They are grasping onto the many red threads that criss cross in front of them. Their face and hair is also red, and black coloured words cut out of newspaper are placed on the hair such that they look like thoughts. The background of the top half of the image is black with white trails of dots, just like the figure’s clothes, while the bottom half is orange with light brown streaks.

Editorial: Mainstream media in India has a disability problem

In a room full of books in wooden shelves, a woman reads aloud to a bunch of enthusiastic children. On the yellow wall hangs a picture of a superhero flying in the air.

At a community library read-aloud, disability manifests as absence

A poster of the movie Kaabil. The picture has a close-up of the actor Hrithik Roshan's face, he has a furrowed brow and each eye has the reflection of a lit candle in it. Below the photo, there is text in upper case that reads, 'Rakesh Roshan's Kaabil. Directed by Sanjay Gupta. Music by Rajesh Roshan.'

‘Kaabil’ isn’t perfect, but it does normalise disability in Indian cinema

The image set against an orange background shows seven children reading books. One of them is sitting on the swing and reading. Another one is petting a dog, with a book in his hand and looking at another child as a grown person looks on them. On the right, there is a parrot perched on a tree branch with a book in its hands too.

Here are three children’s books featuring disability that fared beautifully against my feminist wish list

Against a pink background, the left panel says 'Expectation' under which a young person with a solitary tear drop says 'Here I am to validate all your stereotypes' while on the right, under 'Reality' the same young person is slightly smiling, and saying 'This conversation was over before it even began'

Seven questions about disability we’ve actually been asked. No, really.