T. Jayashree Video Collection
Series I: Video Documentation of the Fight Against 377, TJAV01.000
Series 1 consists of video footage from a project that attempted to document the journey of various activists, lawyers and others involved in the litigation process to decriminalise homosexuality in India. This includes footage of in-depth interviews, community consultations, strategy meetings, protests, public talks and discussions, and press conferences. Given that the project was never completed, it does not claim to provide an all-encompassing view but rather offers a glimpse of the movement in all its complexity.
The items listed below are composed of transcript documents, video recordings and audio clips in multiple formats including .pdf, .mov, .mp4, Mini DV tapes, and HD tapes.
View the rest of the TJAV collection here.
“Do not forget history because it’s like our memory, our collective memory… We don’t have to reinvent the wheel at every stage. Every generation shouldn’t have to do it.”
— Saleem Kidwai
[1951-2021]
This series is arranged in four sub series by theme.
TJAV01.001 Interview with Lawyers of Voices Against 377, 2011
TJAV01.002 Interview with Dr. Rajnish Rao, 2013
TJAV01.003 Interview with Dr. L. Ramakrishnan, 2013
TJAV01.004 Interview with Aniruddhan and parents, 2013
TJAV01.005 Interview with Mangai, 2013
TJAV01.006 Interview with Ponni Arasu, 2013
TJAV01.007 Interview with Good As You members, 2013
TJAV01.008 Interview with Saleem Kidwai, 2013
TJAV01.009 Interview with S.K Bavikatte, 2013
TJAV01.010 Interview with Ruth Vanita, Blore 2013
TJAV01.011 Interview with Aditya Advani, 2013
TJAV01.012 Interview with Anjali Gopalan, 2013
TJAV01.013 Interview with Anuja Gupta, 2013
TJAV01.014 Interview with Ashwini Ailawadi, 2013
TJAV01.015 Interview with Gautam Bhan, 2013
TJAV01.016 Interview with Jaya Sharma, 2013
TJAV01.017 Interview with Minna Saran, 2013
TJAV01.018 Interview with Chitra Palekar, 2014
TJAV01.019 Interview with Vivek Divan, 2016
TJAV01.020 Interview with Amritananda & Mihir, 2018
TJAV01.021 Interview with Anand Grover, 2018
TJAV01.022 Interview with Gautam Bhatia, 2018
TJAV01.023 Interview with Gowthaman and Siddharth, 2018
TJAV01.024 Interview with Lawrence Liang, 2018
TJAV01.025 Interview with Shomona Khanna, 2018
TJAV01.026 Interview with Shyam Divan, 2018
TJAV01.027 Interview with Tripti Tandon, 2018
TJAV01.028 Interview with Vivek Divan, 2018
TJAV01.029 Interview with Akkai Padmashali, 2019
TJAV01.030 Interview with Anjali Gopalan, 2019
TJAV01.031 Interview with Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, 2019
TJAV01.032 Interview with Chayanika Shah, 2019
TJAV01.033 Interview with Vikram Doctor, 2020
TJAV01.034 Interview with Arvind Narrain, 2013
TJAV01.035 Interview with Arvind Narrain, 2014
TJAV01.036 Interview with Arvind Narrain, 2016
TJAV01.037 Interview with Arvind Narrain, 2018
TJAV01.038 Interview with Arvind Narrain, 2020
TJAV01.039 Meeting at UTC, 2011
TJAV01.040 Release of ‘Towards Gender Inclusivity’, 2013
TJAV01.041 Talk by Ruth Vanita, 2013
TJAV01.042 Meeting at Sangama Office, 2013
TJAV01.043 Queer Archiving workshop, 2013
TJAV01.044 Post SC verdict press conference, 2013
TJAV01.045 Debriefing by Gowthaman, 2013
TJAV01.046 Transformative Constitutionalism, talk by Arvind Narrain, 2014
TJAV01.047 Good As You Parents’ Meet, 2014
TJAV01.048 Marmara’s Cubbon park meeting, 2016
TJAV01.049 ALF Office meeting, 2016
TJAV01.050 Meeting at ISI, 2018
TJAV01.051 Panel discussion on SC verdict, 2018
TJAV01.052 Good As You 25th anniversary, 2019
TJAV01.053 Day of the SC verdict, 2013
TJAV01.054 Post SC verdict protest, 2013
TJAV01.055 Global Day of Rage, 2013
TJAV01.056 Mysore Bank protest, 2014
TJAV01.057 Post SC verdict, 2018
Jayashree (she/her) is an independent filmmaker based in Bangalore. She has written, produced and directed for international television, radio, feature and documentary film. Co-founder of the QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU, her work has focused on the intersection between Gender, Sexuality, Law and Public health. View her work here.
Mukul (he/him) is a filmmaker, cinematographer and academic based in Mumbai, India. Specialised in documentary films, he is the director of Vertical City, Nostalgia for the Future and Snapshots from a Family Album. Mukul did the camerawork for Many People Many Desires, A Human Question as well as for a number of the interviews in this collection.
Girjashanker (he/him) is a sound designer, location recordist and cinematographer. A year 2000 graduate from SRFTI, he has worked on several Hollywood, Bollywood feature films and documentary projects including Jayashree’s previous film, Many People Many Desires. He currently lives in Delhi and runs a boutique sound design studio called Depot Records. He also owns and runs an acoustically designed live performance venue/restaurant called Depot48 and a newly opened Indian Eatery called Godaam. He did the camerawork and sound for multiple interviews in this collection.
Siddharth (he/him) is a lawyer and legal academic. He is currently a Scientia PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. His PhD research focuses on the legal regulation of hate speech online in contemporary India. His academic work focuses on themes related to public law, law and society, law and media, and South Asia.
Amrita (she/her) is a web developer, designer, and a data visualiser. She has been involved in the development of Nrityagram’s web presence which tries to bring the Nrityagram experience online through virtual reality. She has also worked on the development of an online archive to document the queer movement in India.
Namita (she/her) is a writer, lawyer, feminist, and coordinator and editor for GenderIT.org. She is also the co-curator of the Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF) and co-founder of the online video archive Pad.ma (Public Access Digital Media Archive).
Gowthaman (he/him) is a professor of law and PhD scholar at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. He has worked with the Alternative Law Forum and the Centre for Social Justice, and was part of the legal team that represented Voices Against 377.
Cite as: Visual Material of the 377 Litigation Process, T. Jayashree Video Collection, QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU, TJAV01.00. Accessed on: dd/mm/yy.