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Cover Image The AOI Dating Glossary Bole toh, terms that give you that light bulb moment—“Arre! This happened to me” Feb 12, 2025
Cover Image 'I feel HIV much easier to live with than even diabetes or high blood pressure' Adopted kids, gave birth, joined a corporate workspace, became an athlete… Persons living with HIV share that testing positive wasn’t the end of the world Dec 01, 2024 hindi badge
Cover Image My Asexual Fantasy We asked – What does intimacy mean to you? What’s a fantasy you’ve always had? What’s something you’d like to do with a date or partner? 8 ace people responded with their imaginations of desire and pleasure. Oct 30, 2024
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image How To Have Long Distance Sex Dealing with September is rough kyunki so many of our partners fly off to foreign unis, leaving us with with tadap and yearning. But we're here with some tips to help you rock that rocky LDR! Sep 16, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image 7 Things The Caribbean Taught Us About Flirting And Fun! There is a way to verbally and non-verbally gauge another person’s interest without harassing them. It’s called flirting. Mar 13, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image The Winners Of The AOI Prem Patra Contest For Valentine’s Day Feb 14, 2024
Cover Image An 82-Year Old Lesbian Poet And Activist’s Advice For The Young And Queer Suniti Namjoshi, who came out to her mother 57 years ago, shares life lessons ‘not because I’m wise, but because I care’. May 17, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Why Is There A Pleasure Premium On ‘Tight’ Vaginas? A doctor asks: Can we please have conversations around (hetero)sexual pleasure that don’t focus on ‘editing’ women’s bodies for men’s sake? Mar 15, 2023
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image “Should I announce my disability?”
“Do I pick the venue?” Dating tips and advice for disabled people, from disabled people Nov 10, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Tere Jaisa Yaar Kahan! 10 Tales on AOI about Friendship that Get Us in Our Feels! #HappyFriendshipsDay with some of Agents of Ishq's best writings on friendship-wala love. Aug 07, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Hold Me Up, Tie Me Down: 4 Quick Tips on Broaching Kinks with Your Partner Wondering what’s a safe start to a kinky chat? Here are ideas that may help! Jul 07, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image Maitri Karar: A Gujarati custom that allow queer relationships legitimacy When polygamy was banned in 1956, the Maitri Karar was invented to allow men to support their mistresses. And then, queer couples used it to live together legally. Jun 16, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Somewhere Between Mills & Boon, Assault and A Dutiful Husband - I Discovered That Sex Is Power It was only during my honeymoon that I realised that sex could be painful. Mar 04, 2023 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image My Clients Celebrate Relationships With Me That They Can’t Even Mention Outside The Therapy Room: A Therapist’s Diary A therapist wonders if we can relook how we approach 'problematic' relationships Jul 14, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image QUESTIONS. RUMINATION. CONVERSATION Or What is he doing right now? Apr 01, 2022
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image SLUT METRO : The Many Journeys to Sexual Confidence! Jan 18, 2022 hindi badge
Cover Image Dilbadar: A Dating Manifesto Minus The Bad Advice Putting the pleasure back in online dating! Dec 11, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image I Have Erotic Friendships And It's Not Complicated Aditya writes to reveal new definitions of friendship - and sex! Aug 09, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image What Does Science Say About Friendship? Aug 13, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image How Vulnerability Can Fill Our Lives with Love! #PyaariVulnerability Jul 28, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image I Will Not Write About The Boy I Like The world is imploding. I should not be writing about the boy I like, who recently told me he likes me too. Jul 01, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image The Story of My “Diagnosis”: What if Nothing is Wrong With Me? How is absence of shaadi or coupledom an 'abnormality' for the society and for oneself? Mar 09, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image How the Internet Changed the Way We Make Friends What does it mean to form bonds in the world of digital connections? Jan 18, 2021 hindi badge
Cover Image Kahin pe Nishana, Kahin Pe Nigahein A party, flirtation, class, and a romantic twist. Nov 29, 2020
Cover Image Things You Wanted To Know About Polyamory, But Felt Too Cool To Ask! Polyamorous Pyaar ki Basic Jankaari! Nov 23, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image A Live-In In Lockdown What does lockdown mean for a couple living-in in a big city? Nov 24, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image A Prostitute and A Saviour: A Diary A trans-person's journey through sex-work and back Nov 17, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Why Does Guilt Follow Pleasure - An Investigative Documentary About Me Moving from guilt to satisfaction in sex! Nov 09, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image “If He Does 'This', Girl You Need To Let Go Of Him!” How the Discussion on 'Toxic' stuff can become toxic to live with Nov 06, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image To All the Boys I Couldn't Love Before What fleeting connections with many interesting men tell you about having the hots for none of them. Aug 04, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Memories of Touch- Poem In A Pandemic In the protected rooms where people are intubated there are no last hugs and the only thing to touch may be the glass of the window through which you can look at them  Jul 27, 2020
Cover Image Secret Loves And Broken Hearts: A Comic A comic about queer desire, love, and loss. Jun 26, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image "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 hindi badge
Cover Image Love Stole My Heart, Caste Broke It If caste were not a factor, I would have been married to my first boyfriend because there was no other issue. Apr 17, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Love x Sex x Caste: A Reading List Will you read about love with us? Apr 15, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image Corona Pyaar Hai! Some Don'ts, and Some Do's During Isolation Navigating sex & intimacy during a pandemic Apr 04, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image I Have a Disability. Why Does Everyone Keep Saying That Love is Not For Me? It took me way too long to realise that I, too, was allowed to love. That I, too, was worthy of it. Mar 23, 2020 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image How My Girlfriend's Abortion Made Me A Better Man: A Comic M's story about a life-changing incident. Oct 02, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image The AOI Guide on How to Say No Sounds simple, but we all know it's tricky in real life! Aug 22, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image When Pyaar Cannot be Taken Forward Body Peechhe Pad Jaati Hai. What else to do? Oct 18, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image A Mudblood Child of a Love Marriage From my parents’ inter-caste marriage, I learned that love was worth hardship  Nov 24, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image Amma, I Wonder If You Had Orgasms I have always wanted to ask you this. Can you tell me about your orgasms? May 12, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image Small Doubts: How Can I Have Sex Without a Relationship? A new instalment of our monthly Sex Ett comic! Apr 11, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image Small Doubts: I Like Older Women, Is That Okay? A young man's burning question. Mar 01, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image Dil Ki Rani, Rishton Ka Rajya A look at the many kinds of relationships in the realm of rishtas! Feb 28, 2019
Cover Image I Faked Orgasms to be Polite You know how we’re taught that good kids don't go for second helpings of food? I carried that training into my sex life Mar 05, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image To be Truly Sex Positive, I Think We Need to Step Back From Sex Between being strictly platonic and having sex is a sea of sensuality. Are we ready to see that yet? Feb 27, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image Why are Bheem and Hidimba the Real Deal? We spoke to the artist and graphic novelist Amruta Patil about the different ways in which love and relationships exist in her work. Feb 12, 2019
Cover Image What the Law Tells Us about Relationships in India You might be surprised – in good and bad ways. Feb 19, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image How My Relationships Made Me Question Pyaar, Azaadi aur Accountability Is ‘demanding accountability’ just a euphemism for trying to control someone? Feb 26, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Three Superb, Sexy Poems By Poet Perundevi in Tamil Oct 23, 2018
Cover Image When a Workshop about Love and Desire Turned into a Raucous Party Oct 26, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image Three Superb, Sexy Poems By Tamil Poet Perundevi good poetry for the health of your soul. Oct 16, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image My First Time Taught Me How Not to Have Sex Jan 24, 2019 hindi badge
Cover Image Who can tell you how to please a woman better than a woman? More women should be writing about sex Sep 21, 2018
Cover Image Changing the Conversation on Consent with A Nayi Emotional Bhasha Have you seen Love in the Garden of Consent/Ishq ke Baagh mein Marzi hai Minimum yet? Sep 02, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image What My Live-In Relationship Taught Me About Consent She wanted to say no, but felt compelled to say yes. She would signal how she truly felt, but he would pretend not to understand. Consent proved tricky and elusive, until she developed the muscle she needed to say 'no'. Aug 02, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image Sex Actually: Of Broken Vaginas and Negotiating Consent New stories of women's unforgettable sexual encounters. Apr 19, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Girlfriend There is only so much that can be romanticised about a long-distance relationship and the magical reunion that'll fix everything. Apr 12, 2018
Cover Image What Is It Like To Have Sex and Love With Both Men and Women Sex with men and with women is actually very different but it’s difficult to articulate the difference in sensation. Mar 22, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image Sex Actually (Let’s Talk About It) Have you ever had a sexual encounter that you just couldn’t forget? That keeps coming back to you from time to time or all the time? Jan 19, 2018
Cover Image People Call Me 'Pervert' Because I Like Sex They can laugh and shame me all they want, but it's through sexual relationships that I learned how to build trust, seek consent, and stop judging Jan 17, 2018 hindi badge
Cover Image Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki? The Big Fat Indian Break-Up Two love stories in which Family played very different roles. Nov 10, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image #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
Cover Image Mard, Mann Aur Jealousy: 5 Men Talk about Dealing With Unusual Jealousies Unusual jealousies men experience and how it affects the way they look at themselves as sexual beings. Nov 16, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image #Unfinished Business: A Conversation about Sudden Heartbreaks Expert tips on dealing with a broken heart. Oct 17, 2017
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image My Year of Flings In retrospect, it seems to me that my ‘hooking-up’ was not so much about seeking temporary partners, it was more about establishing power. To make myself needed, yet always be out of reach. Sep 12, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image How I Helped My Mother Watch Porn and Other Stories Can a young woman learn to accept her mother too is a sexual being? Aug 28, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image MILITANT HUGGER A drought of hugs? Why? When did this ground water deplete? Jul 18, 2017
Cover Image Making Sense of An Ending Jul 27, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image THE STAGES OF CONSENT Jul 14, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image The AOI Guide For Lady-People To Be Sure Your Ishq Moves Aren't Creepy Jul 13, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image My Konark Summer Feb 17, 2017 hindi badge
Cover Image I DIDN’T BELIEVE IN LOVE – THEN I FOUND POLYAMORY Well. Polyamory done right, as it turns out, is a lot of work! Aug 31, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image PAMMI AUNTY: AGENT OF ISHQ Aug 16, 2016
Cover Image 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 hindi badge
Cover Image JEEP MEIN BEEP, DIL MEIN DHAK DHAK “He winked at me in the rear-view mirror and I was overcome with shyness.” Once Chandni meets this jeep driver and their love story gathers speed, it’s heart-in-the-mouth romantic twists and turns and the speedbreaker of respectability cannot slow it down. A story of passionate romance from Banda, UP. Aug 05, 2016 hindi badge
Cover Image 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
Cover Image I Have Erotic Friendships And It’s Not Complicated Aug 09, 2021 hindi badge