Happy New Year and welcome to 2008’s first issue of In Plainspeak. We hope to bring you many more topics of sexuality this year and to extend our range of coverage of articles from more countries in the region. We need your assistance to do this. So, do write in and let us know what you want to know more about. And, please do send us your contributions at resourcecentre@tarshi.net.

As you would have noticed, we have converted Brushstrokes into a more inclusive section called Art Space in which we also accept poetry and short fiction in addition to visual material. Send in your poems and short writings! As the new year begins, we wish all of you a wonderful 2008. May it keep us well and bring us joy.

Radhika Chandiramani