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Bandya caught watching porn aka Hum Aapke Hain Porn- Slideshow May 15, 2025

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The Rasas of Intimacy: A Memoir Intimate Rasas and the secret juice of life Mar 31, 2025

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Suniti Solomon: The AIDS Doc Who Played Matchmaker In playing cupid to over dozens of couples who’d tested positive, Dr Solomon’s team helped people battle loneliness and find companionship Feb 14, 2025

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Nudes landed on the Internet. What do I do? A step by step guide on reporting images shared without consent, and whom to reach out to for help Jan 23, 2025

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Roy and Silo’s Gay Pingu Romance From being the poster boys of gay romance to starting a family together, the story of how two penguins (and others) waddled through life Jan 20, 2025

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Could I Have Been Misogynist Even Though I Was a Woman? Why? Today, I feel to an utmost certainty that I am not pretty, and even slightly indulging in dressing up makes me feel like a fraud. Jan 20, 2025

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Not Feeling ‘Queer Enough’ Helped Me Become My Most Radiant Queer Self Mumbai’s queer scene was self-assured and flamboyant. I was newly bisexual and scared. But being uncertain about where I fit in helped me discover spaces where I could be confidently queer in whatever way I wanted to be. Oct 11, 2024

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Introducing my vibrator to my partners… and other adventures in pleasure My journey from learning how to pick one, going through airport security and learning that vibrators didn’t guarantee 100% orgasms Oct 14, 2024

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‘Mom told me not to peek out of blanket and go back to sleep’ Seven people share the moment they realised that their parents were sexual beings, too Sep 17, 2024

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When Noor Jahan fed Lata with her own hands between Wagah and Attari When the two legends couldn’t cross the border to meet each other, they reunited in no-man’s land and shared a picnic filled with love, remembrance and friendship Aug 14, 2024

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Love Has Come Into My Life. But It Has Also Left My Life As Quickly I am a trans woman. I wonder now if I will ever find love Jun 17, 2024

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The Bullying I Faced In School, And How It Shaped What I Do Today From the time I started speaking, I used feminine pronouns. And it made me the target of my classmates, teachers and even my father May 20, 2024

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The Story of Miss Shefali – Calcutta’s Cabaret Queen How one artiste danced and defied her way to becoming the ‘numero uno’ of the city’s entertainment scene Apr 29, 2024

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Love Served With a Side of Mutton Sukka, Chicken Curry and Coconut Chutney The impromptu meal Babasaheb Ambedkar cooked for friends and family Apr 14, 2024

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One day I was wearing shirts and whistling in class. And the next, I was told I was a girl and had to act like one. The responsibilities of being a girl and an older sibling meant I had to wear shalwar kurtas and keep my legs neatly tucked. Mar 25, 2024

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I was prepared to sulk, until I saw a tiny girl with a hockey stick A serendipitous meeting with a movie character changed everything I had so far been told girls could be Mar 18, 2024

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A Hundred Things In My Body Flesh, feelings, memories, identities, judgement, heartbreak – is there anything that is not in or part of our bodies? Aug 05, 2022

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Big Truths About The Big-O: AOI’s Orgasm Anxiety Survey Is sex only a straight line to orgasms? What’s mental health got to do with orgasms? Are orgasms guaranteed if you have a partner? Aug 11, 2022

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Drowning In Love - A Valentine's Special Reading List Ishq comes in many shades - kabhi passionate, kabhi emotional, kabhi sexual aur kabhi chill. Here are some passionate, hatke love stories for you to read this Valentine’s month. Feb 17, 2023

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I wanted love and found it. It just wasn’t reciprocated After each encounter, I promised myself I’d talk about my needs, be vulnerable in a smart way. Next time, I’d win Jan 29, 2024

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I Thought It Was A Dream Date. But I Am Bipolar, So Was It Just A Dream? This date wasn’t supposed to be a rebound, but still hit me in the face, and everywhere else Dec 18, 2023

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I Want To Feel Cared For Even When I’m Having Casual Sex The ‘no strings attached,’ nature of casual sex meant that I was left feeling dissatisfied and dehumanized. But being open about my need to be nurtured opened up a whole new world. Apr 12, 2023

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Smoothing The Rough Corners Of Kink And Pain My journey towards finding pleasure through pain in BDSM was rough. But I’ve learnt how to make it pleasurable. Nov 27, 2023

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‘Could I share food with others? Could I have a relationship?’ A diagnosis of herpes can be terrifying. But, here’s what I learnt after being told I have herpes Nov 13, 2023

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Real Life Confessions: The Break-up Behaviour I Wanted Versus What I Actually Did From giving comfort to their partner to calling them 100 times, agents share what they did when relationships went south! Nov 01, 2023

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Where Is A Sex Toy I Can Use? Buying a sex toy can be a difficult process when you are a person with disabilities. These are the obstacles one faces: Oct 18, 2023

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No Privacy With Disability? Here Are Some Hacks This Sunday Sex-ed we bring masturbation privacy hacks: Disability Edition Oct 15, 2023

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Firdaus Kanga: The Man Who Wrote About Queerness, Disability And Desire In 90s India! Today’s #HistoriesofIshq celebrates the Parsi man whose life and work allows us to imagine a limitless world Dec 10, 2023

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“Should I announce my disability?”
“Do I pick the venue?” Dating tips and advice for disabled people, from disabled people Nov 10, 2023

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I Was Happy To Give Them My (W)hole Heart, But They Wanted Kids And A Desi Bahu I’ve had a heart defect since childhood. So, how do I find love in a world that’s obsessed with the body? Oct 09, 2023

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Juvenile Arthritis Meant That I Couldn’t Touch My Penis. Then, I Discovered Mindgasms Naveen shares how he discovered the power of fantasy after being bedridden at the age of 13 Oct 02, 2023

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I Thought I’d Be Too Cool For Vanity. But, It Was A Struggle Author Shormistha Mukherjee on struggling with self-image and reconnecting with intimacy during and post her breast cancer treatment. Sep 22, 2023

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My Body Has Become An Open Wound Chemo saved her from cancer, but took away the ability to enjoy sex and intimacy. In an interview with Agents of Ishq, Amulya*, cancer survivor, unpacks her emotions of life post treatment Sep 22, 2023

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Gut Feelings - IBS, Body Image and the Bowels Of Desire How do you feel desirable and attractive in a body that does not listen to you. Aug 07, 2023

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My Post-Baby Boobs - A Comic Short tales about a pair of boobs living the postpartum life #WorldBreastfeedingWeek Aug 02, 2023

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It Took Me Two Years To Realize I Had Been Raped A male Dalit queer person on acknowledging the many shades of sexual assault. Jun 19, 2023

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Love was a stereotype. Friendship was radical. And then, I met her. If witnessing a relationship slowly die out like a star collapsing into itself were a color, it would be tangerine. Aug 05, 2023

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Drowning In Love - A Valentines Month Reading List 5 books on big big love stories where love defined itself differently in different relationships. Jan 01, 1970

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People Said I Should Drop Some Kilos, Instead I Shed My Shame I want to marvel at fat women with fat minds and I want to marvel at myself. Apr 03, 2023

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A French Fling And My Epic Romance With Masturbation How old were you when you had your first “libido lightbulb” aka when you first got curious about sex and your body? Jan 13, 2023

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Could I Feel Sexual Pleasure Again After Sexual Assault? After sexual violence conflates sex with violence, is there a road back to pleasure? Jan 03, 2023

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Hyenas, Orangatuns And Discovering My (A) Sexuality Questions, questions, and I had no answers. Until a Reddit meme showed me "Asexuals are…" Feb 27, 2023

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My P.O.P (Pending Orgasm Project) : A Bloody Tale Dec 14, 2022

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Ammuma’s Haircut and Her Romantic Past If Ammuma's hair was one to divulge, what would it reveal about her life? Dec 04, 2022

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Asexuality And Shah Rukh Khan: Ek Prem Kahaani But the older Abhramika grew, the more she realised that her idea of romance was probably not the same as that of others around her. Oct 20, 2022

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Do You Dare Confess Your One Sided Love? He loves someone else, but he doesn't mind me loving him in this one-sided fashion. Apr 01, 2022

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Breaking My Heart And Finding Myself Imran on why queer break-ups are hard, but you can't lose yourself entirely in love. Apr 01, 2022

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QUESTIONS. RUMINATION. CONVERSATION Or What is he doing right now? Apr 01, 2022

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Bad Habits, Good Women: My Conversations with Nuns Unmarried, celibate, religious – is every nun the same kind of woman? Nikhita finds out! Mar 01, 2022

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The Woman In The Closet "I never considered my ajji was not always my ajji" Jun 28, 2022

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My Wobbly Bits: Making Friends with My New-Old Body In my 50's, I'm rearing a kid by myself and greeting new body parts ever so frequently. Mar 01, 2022

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The Case Of The Missing Butterflies In My Tummy I thought if I gave myself a push, I’d fall into the hormone pool everyone was swimming in. Feb 01, 2022

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See-Saw Sexual Confidence Ka! What people said brought their sexual confidence up or down! Jan 07, 2022

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Bodies in Pain: Reclaim, not Shame Angel's journey of accepting that her period pain was real, not imaginary or inconsequential. Apr 30, 2022

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Can Your Vulnerability Make You Mean? Mine Did. What memories can a unexpected apology from a childhood bully bring up? Jul 22, 2021

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Whose is the Voice in our Head? The (Mis)adventures of Vulnerability and Vetaal A series of comics on what #VulnerABILITY says to us in our worst moments. Jul 19, 2021

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“Being well-adjusted to this world is no measure of being well”- Vulnerability, Strength and Mental Health A conversation with Sonal Giani! Jul 26, 2021

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To Think Of All the Bisexual Love I’ve Missed! I’m 28 and I recently realized I’m bisexual. Feb 22, 2021

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Self-love, And Other Jarring Tasks I Am Forced To Perform During Lockdown What if lockdown loneliness found you new love? Dec 09, 2020

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I am Big and Beautiful A fat woman rises to own her sexuality, desire and desirability Nov 21, 2020

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A Prostitute and A Saviour: A Diary A trans-person's journey through sex-work and back Nov 17, 2020

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How Masturbation Helped Me Cope With Heartbreak Masturbation and other remedies for rejection. Oct 29, 2020

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TWO OR THREE THINGS I LEARNED FROM BEING ALONE How living alone during a pandemic changes how we think of our wellness. Oct 17, 2020

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My Body In Bed Isn’t Any Kind of Map To Pleasure What is intimacy like when it’s traumatic to live in your body/head? Oct 12, 2020

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My Struggle To Live and Love With Vaginismus How does trauma manifest in our bodies and our intimacies Oct 04, 2020

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Dear Girls Who Sent Nudes, Thank You What leaking of nude pictures says about betrayal of consent and privacy. Sep 03, 2020

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I Took A Nude Selfie. It Changed My Life. After years of hiding, can a nude selfie get Ini to see her body in a new light? Jul 13, 2020

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Can I Open The Window And Let Go Of The Past? A journey back to a room full of a traumatic memory to seek reconciliation. Jul 07, 2020

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What Did Your Father Do? In a Father’s Day special, Swati recalls the most special moments spent with her "un-special" Baba. Jun 21, 2020

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Call Me Rama: Reading Baba A woman re-discovers the man her father was through his writings. Jun 21, 2020

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Lockdown Diaries: There's A Naked Woman In My Mirror! F*** It's ME! When there is nobody to call us beautiful, what might we discover while binge-watching ourselves? May 29, 2020

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Does Size Matter? A True Story For a man with a small penis, porn and condoms can unite in a nightmare. Jan 16, 2020

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As A Man Am I Condemned To Choose Violence Over Love? Maybe Not. I hit her. The realisation of what I did, and the guilt it brought is unbearable even now. Oct 15, 2019

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A Mudblood Child of a Love Marriage From my parents’ inter-caste marriage, I learned that love was worth hardship Nov 24, 2019

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How Shru Stopped Hating Herself (With A Little Help From Her Dad) From self-harm and shame, to learning to be your own hero! Apr 18, 2019

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Menopause: A Poem "My tongue has sharpened." Mar 19, 2019

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How I Grew Out of My Turbulent Teens Life as a schoolgirl was about trying to fit in; to be seen and not seen; self-hate and self-harm. Talking about it to other people was the first step in a new direction Jan 17, 2019

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My Male Friends and I Talked About Sex Constantly, But Not How We Really Felt About It I’m trying to unlearn everything I’d absorbed in predominantly male spaces. It’s making me a better person. Nov 13, 2018

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My First Time Taught Me How Not to Have Sex Jan 24, 2019

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I Thought Dye-ing Young Would Make Me More Desirable. Twenty-Three Years Later, I’m Ready to Stop Trying to hide white hair now seems like an avoidable agony Aug 21, 2018

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How Dancing Helped Me Fix My Broken Heart There is no gender in dance. Pick your gender for today and tomorrow if I ask you to switch you should be able to do it . Apr 29, 2018

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I Dreamed of Having a Suhaag Raat Straight Out of the Movie Kama Sutra. My Actual Experience Was Nothing Like It It’s been a decade since I had sex with a man. Mar 20, 2018

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Dating an Older Woman Made Me Take Myself and Relationships More Seriously It made me do a lot of prioritizing and reorganizing. It was stabilizing. Jan 08, 2018

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LOVE, SEX AND KHICHDI I just wanted to hold him tight and never let go. I wanted to make sure he would come back and I wanted to scream at him for untangling the ‘not’s in my chest. Dec 12, 2017

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WE MET ON GRINDR. NOW THE INTIMACY OF THE SEX WE HAD MAKES IT HARD FOR ME TO FORGET HIM Some loves are sexual, where emotion, body and connection become powerfully joined in the intimacy of sex more than anything else. It is an intoxication, a nasha that’s hard to forget, because it runs deep. Nov 08, 2017

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Just How Long is This Breakup Going to Take? If you didn’t count his crying, nagging, and emotional blackmail, he was a genuinely nice guy who cared about me and wanted the best for me. Nov 07, 2017

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I was the Abusive One In My Relationship. My Break-up Taught Me To Change. I’ve realised that there is no purpose to just feeling perpetually guilty. What I can do now is never treat anyone else the way I treated her. Oct 12, 2017

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Dosti is Pyaar: Being Lost and Finding Friends If pyaar is dosti, it took me a while to understand that that dosti is also pyaar, but more forgiving. Aug 04, 2017

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I LEARNT HOW TO EXPRESS AFFECTION AND LOVE IN FRIENDSHIP THE HARD WAY Sometimes I think that friendship and hugging are oddly co-related. Both exist in a place of love which is somewhere between sexual love and cordial acquaintance. Aug 06, 2017

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I Felt Humiliated for Contracting an STI But I Know I'm Touchable, Lovable and More-Than-Sexable Getting an STI is surrounded by shame and shaming, even at times, by doctors. Aug 03, 2017

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How I Taught Myself To Have Orgasms I wasn’t fucking anorgasmic, I’d just been doing it wrong my whole life. Jun 19, 2017

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Those City Love Affairs I find love in conversations, and in what I can never quite completely understand about the other person. Feb 24, 2017

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Fantasy Mein Kya Sharmana: My Secret Crushes Mar 16, 2017

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The Bhabhi Next Door "I like talking to a Bhabhi in the neighbourhood because of her outspoken and frank opinions on sex" says Saurabh "but I feel nervous too because she is so bold." The conversations excite him and Bhabhi extends an invitation. WiIl Saurabh take her up on it? Listen to this podcast about a young man's fantasies and anxieties about sex. Jan 20, 2017

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"I've slowly learnt to keep the lights on." Body, Images and Sex: A Storified Conversation Body, Images and Sex: A Storified Conversation with Kripa Joshi, Rani Dhaschainey and Ratna Devi Manokaran Dec 19, 2016

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GRIM HAIRY TALES: A DEPILATOR'S DIARY Mummy never needed to wax or shave her legs or underarms. Her lower leg was quite hairy, but were always concealed from view, as were those of all desi aunties we knew. Sep 14, 2016

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Qayanat Ka Romancenama “A board was flashing a sign: Qayanat*, I love you. It was like a film. I could not believe this was all happening for me, to me.” Qayanat’s romance, begins like a film, proceeds like a film, complete with shayris, desperation, twists and turns, 100 free sms a day, ice-cream in the mall, and her reflection in her boyfriend’s eyes. How does this filmi Romance-nama culminate? Not at all as you would expect – listen here to this podcast full of fizz and glitter: Qayanat ka Romancenama. Aug 12, 2016

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ISHQ KE AAM, KHAANE KE AUR, DIKHANE KE AUR Sweety, growing into a beautiful young woman in a small town, admired herself in the mirror, longed for love. But did she dare taste this forbidden fruit? A bittersweet story of longing and regret from Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Sep 09, 2016

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THIS IS WHO I AM: A YOUNG MAN’S JOURNEY OF FINDING HIMSELF THROUGH KINK A young man who discovers his submissive nature and learns to be himself through BDSM and kink. May 01, 2016

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The Inheritance of Sex-Ed Sex-Ed, through the generations - an inheritance from a father to a daughter. May 23, 2016

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How Posing in the Nude Changed My Life A young gay man who hates being touched, is awkward about having sex. Then, an ex-flame asks him if he'll pose for some photographs - in the nude. Listen to Arindam's podcast on how the experience made him bloom into a sexual being. And how an act that mixed intimacy and creativity, began a new journey of confidence and exuberance. Apr 29, 2016

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Mamma Ka Dilemma One day you discover your 7 year old has been watching porn? What do you do? Freak out? Cut your internet connection? Blame yourself? Or maybe, you do what Anu Singh Choudhary did. Listen to her podcast Mamma Ka Dilemma. Apr 22, 2016

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The Reluctant Voyeur Your best friend and her boy friend get it on in front you. Should you be made a voyeur without your consent? Young Andrea's podcast about an awkward night. Mar 13, 2016