The I Column
If the Internet Didn’t Exist
If the Internet didn’t exist, I believe I would be a highly insecure person. Don’t read that the wrong…
By Ragamalika Karthikeyan
July 1, 2015
Blood On Our Skirts
[slideshow_deploy id=’6158′] I remember the first time I learnt of menstruation as a ten year old. One of our friends…
By Shambhawi Vikram
June 17, 2015
Sex, the City and Hypocrisy
India is home to a whopping 17.5% of the total world population. Half of this population is its women. No, correction,…
By Guest Writer
June 17, 2015
Silencing love: Negotiating Sexuality In School Life
My experience of school, as I remember it, was quite conflicted. As a child I lacked the vocabulary to describe…
By Meghna Bohidar
June 1, 2015
The Story of an Odd Couple
A very hot July afternoon had forcibly pushed both of us inside a fancy Delhi mall. The air-conditioner was bringing…
By Shivani Gupta
May 15, 2015
Consent, Marriage and the Family
It was at the end of the first week of October (2013) that my maternal uncle and I went to…
By Bharti Kannan
May 15, 2015
The struggles of being an unmarried woman
I am a 26-year-old woman. Is there anything extraordinary about it? Maybe not. But there is certainly something extraordinary in…
By Deepa Ranganathan
May 1, 2015
From Reshma Valliappan to Deepika Padukone
We don’t have an original I-Column this month. Instead we feature the voices of two women, Deepika Padukone and Reshma…
By Curated Content
April 15, 2015
Writing Erotic Poetry
My discovery of erotic poems was, as they put it, ‘by chance’. A friend of mine had suggested a book…
By Aindrila Chaudhuri
March 1, 2015
From Knowing To Doing
At 13, I could (correctly!) explain the reproductive system of a plant. I’d been rather intimate with the anatomy of…
By Rishita Nandagiri
February 15, 2015
“Is there anything you want to ask me?”
A lot of research concludes that globally, young people aren’t learning enough about sexuality, and that they would like to…
By Padmini Iyer
February 1, 2015
When Transparency Meets Fluidity, Dance Is Born
I just celebrated my twenty years in India last October and designed a performance for the occasion: ‘What is dance?’…
By Gilles Chuyen
January 1, 2015
A Lingering Tingle
I started learning Bharatanatyam in 1988, when I was six years old. Looking back, it feels like beginning to learn…
By Aniruddan Vasudevan
January 1, 2015
BEING THIN… BEING ME
Which one of these is the right question to ask myself: When was the first time I realised I was…
By Ekta Oza
December 1, 2014
SEXLESS IN THE CITY (FOR NO FAULT OF MINE)
If a woman likes a man, she seduces him with her charm, wit and humour. This, I have seen, works….
By Malini Chib
December 1, 2014