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Dharmendra Made Me Gay Vivek Anand curates (and spills the tea) on some of the actor's sexiest onscreen moments. Featuring thundering thighs, hot and heavy kisses, embraces and more) Oct 01, 2022

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Dard-E-Display: The Desi Heartbreak Playbook What is dard without making a display of it? Here are some desi words for the heartbroken Nov 16, 2022

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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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Moments in Our Life That Make Us Ask “Why Not Me?” From not having a date on Valentine’s Day, to being overlooked by your crush, a long list of situations that make our hearts go all dard-e-disco Dec 20, 2023

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Coping with sexual sadness: Here’s what we learnt We spoke to some Agents and put down some tips to help us all with the feeling of loss, rejection, unfulfillment, the sense of being a sexual-have not Dec 17, 2023

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Never Will I Ever… Have continuous disappointments left us over-managing our expectations on dates? Are there dreams you have set aside completely? Dec 05, 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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What Is The History Of The Heart Symbol? Here are all the shapes in which our dils have dhak- dhakoed over the centuries Sep 29, 2023

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A Note Of Goodwill To Our Exes! On #SadbhavanaDivas, we spoke to Agents who shared heartfelt messages for those they once loved Aug 20, 2023

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What I Left Behind For My #Azaadi What do we seek #Azaadi from and what do we leave behind to gain it? This #IndependenceDay, let’s see how our Agents left behind a feeling, a place or a person behind for a freer tomorrow. Aug 15, 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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With Polyamory, I Grew Into The Person (And Lover) I Was Meant To Be For years, I questioned if I could expand the definition of a loving relationship. And then, I did. Apr 17, 2023

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"Conscious Uncoupling is more about emotional freedom from the negative patterns of the past" An Interview with Dr. Suchitra Dr. Suchitra tells us how to end relationships in an empowered and dignified way! Mar 09, 2023

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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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Stars In My Eyes ft. Meena Kumari 6 people tell us why the Tragedy Queen mattered to them on her birthday! Jan 07, 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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Love Paranoia After every rejection I ask, is it my disability? Apr 01, 2022

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

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Reckless In Love, Powerful In Sisterhood - Vijeta Kumar Interviews Asha Kowtal Asha was General Secretary of All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM) for eleven years Jun 28, 2022

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Stories From A Survey: Manju's Story Nov 01, 2021

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"The Talk Of The Heart, It’s Not As Easy As It Looks" : Saleem Kidwai’s Friendship with Begum Akhtar An interview with the late Saleem Kidwai about his life and friendship with Begum. Sep 12, 2021

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Some of us need to be understood differently: Breaking Up and Mental Illness Rukmini writes about her relationship and break-up, and how as a person with mental-illness, she wishes it could have been done differently. Jul 29, 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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How Masturbation Helped Me Cope With Heartbreak Masturbation and other remedies for rejection. Oct 29, 2020

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Tell Me Tarot, Will He Ever Come Back? After Manjari is ghosted, all search for closure leads to herself. Jul 02, 2020

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Secret Loves And Broken Hearts: A Comic A comic about queer desire, love, and loss. Jun 26, 2020

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"So Many Women, But It's Her I Love" An excerpt from Maya Sharma's Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India Jun 07, 2020

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What Falling For My Friend As A Lesbian Taught Me About How We Express Friendship Does queerness complicate the experience of falling for a friend? Jun 15, 2020

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Love x Sex x Caste: A Reading List Will you read about love with us? Apr 15, 2020

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S.W.A.G. Secretly We Are Gay Two closeted gay men, who are married to women, fall in love with each other. Mar 01, 2020

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Small Doubts: What Do I Do if Someone Refuses to See Me After a One-Night Stand? Our Sex Ett column. This time, on dealing with rejection! Nov 13, 2019

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When Pyaar Cannot be Taken Forward Body Peechhe Pad Jaati Hai. What else to do? Oct 18, 2019

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Maybe Fighting with a Friend isn't Such a Bad Thing Why do we find it so easy to let friendship fade away? Jun 20, 2019

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More Than An Identity: How I Realised My Struggle Was With Being Sexual, Not Homosexual My identity as a queer person became a bit of a shield from the world of love, the world of sex Jun 11, 2019

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Things Young Men Say to Me During Sex-Ed Workshops From ‘What is a clitoris?’ to sharing stories of heartbreak, a sexuality educator tells us some of the burning issues on men’s minds Jan 15, 2019

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When a Workshop about Love and Desire Turned into a Raucous Party Oct 26, 2018

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My Exes Live in a Sexy Nexus. I Love them All We need our exes like we need our brothers and sisters and favourite cousins to remember who we were Jul 03, 2018

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Isn't A Whatsapp Love Story A Real Love Story? Could you fall crazily in love with someone you've never met IRL? Jun 12, 2018

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From Saat Khoon Maaf to Khoon-Kharaba : Ways People React To Cheating! Stories from people who discovered their lovers’ infidelity, what happened next and what they think about it now. Feb 03, 2020

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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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Is It Better To Have Loved and Lost Than Never To Have Loved At All? While we sometimes have the pleasure and good luck of finding a “Truly, madly, deeply” wala love, we may not always find the “Forever and always” kind. Feb 04, 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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Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki? The Big Fat Indian Break-Up Two love stories in which Family played very different roles. Nov 10, 2017

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#QueerlyHeartbroken: A Twitter Chat With Sonal Giani Queer Rights Activist Sonal Giani, on being Queer and Heartbroken, the common issues faced by queer people during break ups and how to deal with it. Nov 01, 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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Are We Together or Broken Up? The Agony of Ambiguity. I was afraid to straight up ask him for an answer and he didn’t have the decency to be a bit clearer. Oct 30, 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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My First Break-Up Was Nothing Like The Movies We just sat down, wringing our hands. I said, “We have to confront reality. I don’t think we should be together anymore.” Oct 13, 2017

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The Extravagant Love-Pain Poems of Meena Kumari Meena Kumari turned tragic love into art and social commentary Aug 01, 2017

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Dil Google Google ho gaya AKA how I internet stalked my way through a break up I’d scroll down from post to post, to find semblance of a love lost. As though trying to relive our time together by scrolling down will undo everything that happened to us. Oct 11, 2017

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PETROL BACHAO, CREEP JEEP MAT CHALAO. YOUR ROAD-MAP TO POST-REJECTION RECOVERY! Jul 14, 2017

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A LOVE SUPREME Is it better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all? Gudiya's story of love ending in tragedy is both unbearably tender and painful - but it will make you believe in the idea of a love supreme. Aug 26, 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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In A Gay Bar You Can See Forever An Indian man at 31, in a gay bar for the first time, experiencing male erotic tenderness for the first time. Aug 01, 2016