{"id":7619,"date":"2022-07-13T22:47:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T03:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2020\/?page_id=7619"},"modified":"2022-07-29T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T02:57:32","slug":"rajan-luthra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2020\/rajan-luthra\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajan Luthra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic: <\/strong>Un-gender: Indian masculine expression of 21st century traces to 200 CE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s gender neutral expression lasted most of its history until 20th century. Masculine and feminine inseparable in aesthetics, \u2018form\u2019 and \u2018function\u2019 went together. Gender-changing Gods, garments draping all sizes, weapons embellished like jewelry, jewelry shared between all genders. Colonisation brought strictures, \u2018form\u2019 became feminine and \u2018function\u2019, masculine. Fluid dhoti lost to the tailored trouser, a symbol of class, education, modernity.<\/p>\n<p>Masculine expression is recontextualizing itself, bearing similarities with ancient Indian \u2018form\u2019. 21st century men\u2019s grooming is akin to 200CE Kamasutra\u2019s men.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an attempt to explore how masculine expression has been resemiotized through a rough classification of timeline \u2013 pre-colonisation, colonial &amp; 20th century, and the 21st century today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 Topic: Un-gender: Indian masculine expression of 21st century traces to 200 CE. \u00a0 India&#8217;s gender neutral expression lasted most of its history until 20th century. Masculine and feminine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7619","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7643,"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7619\/revisions\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semiofest.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}