पापा को कैंसर था। उनके बाद गुज़रा हुआ वक़्त, अब उनके साथ गुज़ारे हुए वक़्त से ज़्यादा हो गया है। वो क्या थे? वो कैसे बात करते थे? मैं कुछ पक्के तौर पर नहीं कह सकत... Read More...
You can read Part 1 of this story here and Part 2 here
“Mrinalini, you have a visitor,” said the hostel
warden in her booming voice.
Mrinalini was ... Read More...
Actor Saattvic made some heads turn when he came out to the world in a blog post. In his coming out post, Saattvic had written how he was advised to keep his s... Read More...
Dipankar Sarkar is the father of two daughters. When his elder daughter came out to him as a lesbian at the age of 17, he says he did not have any problem acce... Read More...
The sexuality I possessed affected my performance of gender to a great extent. I have always been more inclined towards what the society calls an ‘effeminate’ behaviour, like speaking softly, unlike the macho manners of my father and grandfather.
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“We read the letter sent by a man calling you to X hotel!”
With surprise as well as shock writ on my face, I tried to understand what Papa, as I call my f... Read More...
Thinking beyond my capabilities,
Stop calling them as atrocities.
Awaiting the news, I feared the worst and hoped for the best.
Life was about to put my fami... Read More...
Whenever I would get to know about his presence, I would hide myself. I lived in many cities, away from my village, but was always insecure. I lost my confidence and became fragile.
While trying to fit into the normative gender roles of a guy, I sub-consciously departed from the real me, killed the real me with my drag self, forgot what being the real me feels like.