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Issue In Focus: The Conversations We Don’t Have
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Issue In Focus: The Conversations We Don’t Have

A long, long time ago, in a room far, far away, I remember playing at being a mythological hero I…
By Shikha Aleya
February 1, 2016
Issue In Focus: The Conversations We Don’t Have
The Long Route to Being Comfortable With My Sexuality
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The Long Route to Being Comfortable With My Sexuality

I have been out of school for close to five years. I recently met up with a friend from school…
By Guest Writer
February 1, 2016
The Long Route to Being Comfortable With My Sexuality
The Confidence of a Married Woman
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The Confidence of a Married Woman

I envy confident women. It could be the way a woman speaks her mind, the way she dresses, or just…
By Surbhi Dewan
February 1, 2016
The Confidence of a Married Woman
Playing With Love
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Playing With Love

I’m a sucker for love. And I don’t want to be a party pooper either. There is lots I have…
By Jaya Sharma
February 1, 2016
Playing With Love
An (A)sexual Awakening
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An (A)sexual Awakening

I had my sexual awakening in college. Or rather, the realisation that I would never have a ‘sexual awakening’ hit…
By Kavya Kartik
February 1, 2016
An (A)sexual Awakening
Video Page: ‘How Can It Be’
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Video Page: ‘How Can It Be’

A moving short film by Mira Nair on the anguish we subject ourselves to when faced with the inexplicable power…
By Curated Content
February 1, 2016
Video Page: ‘How Can It Be’
Love, Marriage, and the Neoliberal World Order
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Love, Marriage, and the Neoliberal World Order

On June 27, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States of America held, “The Fourteenth Amendment requires a state…
By Debanuj DasGupta
August 1, 2015
Love, Marriage, and the Neoliberal World Order
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility
Still from film 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns'. A woman and a man in a wedding. The man holds a baby wrapped in a white cloth in his arms. The woman wears a red Indian suit, red bangles, and has open hair. The man wears a red turban and golden kurta.
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility

What does Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015) have in common with Perumal Murugan’s controversial book, One Part Woman (2013)? Stories on emasculation…
By Shweta Krishnan
July 1, 2015
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility
Beauty
A pair of hands with wrinkles on them holding each other. One of the hands is wearing a gold band on their ring finger
Beauty

And all my life I’ve lived alone. What it means to be beautiful, I’ve never known. I’ve had partners but…
By Almas Shamim
June 17, 2015
Beauty
Love will find a way: The story of six differently abled couples who never thought they’d find love
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Love will find a way: The story of six differently abled couples who never thought they’d find love

SUMMARY Six young men and women, all afflicted by polio, had never thought they would fall in love. Till they…
By Curated Content
August 15, 2014
Love will find a way: The story of six differently abled couples who never thought they’d find love
The Fine Line
The Fine Line
February 1, 2014
The Fine Line
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