सिसक – एक कविता
रोशनदानों की रोशनी सी पुलक-पुलक मैंने इबादत पढ़ी है जो
परवरदिगार इसका तू और आयात तेरे अफ़साने।
जावेदा-सी नहीं है ये शमा कोई,
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हिन्दी
“वापसी” एक शृंखलाबद्ध कहानी (भाग २/२)
कहानी की पहली किश्त यहाँ पढ़ें।
उसका घर, घर जैसा था। फिर बातें हुई, बहुत-सी बातें, कुछ जरुरी थी, कुछ ग़ैर-जरुरी, कुछ याद हैं, बहुत-सी नहीं भी... Read More...
“वापसी” एक शृंखलाबद्ध कहानी (भाग १/२)
एक सपना हर रात आता है। अँधेरा-सा कॉरिडोर है। कोने पर लिफ्ट है। गरदन झुकाये मैं चला जा रहा हूँ। आवाज़ आती है। "एक ही प्रेस करना, ज़ीरो नहीं।" ... Read More...
Queer Voices
Women
I am an Indian Bisexual Woman, And This is My Story
I am Kavita Sarmah; I am an artist, sister, traveler and bisexual. I have the right to be as happy as anyone else.
Why #UnFairAndLovely Matters
The disreputation of dark skin causes issues such as low self esteem, eating disorders, anxiety, etc.; it causes people to be worried about their marital prospects, careers, and social popularity
Health & Sexuality
Literature
Book Review : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
TMOUH is primarily a story of margins and marginalized; the ones who are ‘misfit’ for the soceity, the dunya as Anjum rightly called it, where hegemonic majoritarian politics make identities like being Queer, Woman, Dalit, Adivasi, Muslim, Kashmiri, Drug Addict, Syrian Christian, Poor and Uneducated the easy target of unbridled and insatiable hatred.
Finding the Perfect Profile Picture : An Excerpt from the Book ‘The Gay Man’s Guide to Dating’
Sometimes you won’t have time to read someone’s profile bio – and we all know that your picture is all you’ve got to get him to say hello.
Review: ‘The Tree Outside My Window is a Drama Queen’ by Avinash Matta
The sixty poems in The Tree Outside My Window is a Drama Queen are short pieces, and can be read in bursts. They coalesce around nature, and in contrast, technology. Often, Matta’s poems speak of gayness and its proscription in this country.
Poem: Dil, Dick, Dosti
Dil, Dick or Dosti,
Gay, panthi or kothi
Love might be quite unfair,
But all we need is some care.
International
Watch: Sri Lanka celebrated Pride in a Unique Way By Taking out a Bus Parade and Flying Rainbow Kites
Pride in Sri Lanka was unique as the participants took out a Rainbow Bus Parade, with a bus full of participants and draped in rainbow flags going around the city of Colombo
