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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!
Breaking My Heart And Finding Myself
Imran on why queer break-ups are hard, but you can't lose yourself entirely in love.
Love Paranoia
After every rejection I ask, is it my disability?
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
Stories From A Survey: Manju's Story
"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.
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.
Self-love, And Other Jarring Tasks I Am Forced To Perform During Lockdown
What if lockdown loneliness found you new love?
How Masturbation Helped Me Cope With Heartbreak
Masturbation and other remedies for rejection.
Tell Me Tarot, Will He Ever Come Back?
After Manjari is ghosted, all search for closure leads to herself.
Secret Loves And Broken Hearts: A Comic
A comic about queer desire, love, and loss.
"So Many Women, But It's Her I Love"
An excerpt from Maya Sharma's Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India
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?
Love x Sex x Caste: A Reading List
Will you read about love with us?
S.W.A.G. Secretly We Are Gay
Two closeted gay men, who are married to women, fall in love with each other.
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!
When Pyaar Cannot be Taken Forward
Body Peechhe Pad Jaati Hai. What else to do?
Maybe Fighting with a Friend isn't Such a Bad Thing
Why do we find it so easy to let friendship fade away?
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
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
When a Workshop about Love and Desire Turned into a Raucous Party
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
Isn't A Whatsapp Love Story A Real Love Story?
Could you fall crazily in love with someone you've never met IRL?
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki? The Big Fat Indian Break-Up
Two love stories in which Family played very different roles.
#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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
The Extravagant Love-Pain Poems of Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari turned tragic love into art and social commentary
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.
PETROL BACHAO, CREEP JEEP MAT CHALAO. YOUR ROAD-MAP TO POST-REJECTION RECOVERY!
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.
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.
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.
