Of heartbreaks and situationships. That word looks so emotionally bankrupt. That word called situationship. Be grateful it is a heartbreak. There’s scope for poetry there.
Following the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 2018, gender rights campaigners believe marriage equality through legal recognition of same-sex marriages is the next logical step. Here we lay down the legal arguments and...
The darkness and depth of the night were soothing the souls with its spell-binding silence. The pale crescent moon shone like a silvery claw in the night sky.
What does love mean in 2023? It perhaps depends on who is asked. Love is colour-blind, they say. Yet, seen through a prism, it has many hues.
Author Ruth Vanita's 'Love’s Rite' was first published in 2005, when there was no movement for marriage equality in India. It has since served as a seminal text for remapping the history of non-heteronormative...
We saw each other, again, at Delhi’s Pride parade and then at my Nizamuddin home. Love bloomed and took root. When the US allowed same-sex marriage, we made a home in the rural Upstate New York and filled it with love
Love moves beyond boundaries only when we love in multiple territories, in multiple languages, in multiple ways, and shy away to say: look, I am born out of Mohabbat and shall carry it wherever I go like an essence.
We meet, fall in love, breathe the fragrance of nature, and depart thinking of the last time we met.
Even in a relationship as present-day as friends-with-benefits, men fix ground rules and tilt the balance. The writer fathoms into the relationships prevalent...
The writer wonders if the world of friendship would be a better place if people would not avoid befriending sad people. She writes that she had made a pact...
A recent survey about Indian youth has found that youth with higher education don't aspire to get married early. These days becoming a single father/ mother is...
A woman from Gujarat announced she would marry herself in India's first 'sologamy' out of self-love. Here we explain various kinds of relationships.
Can there be home within a home? Can our vanity be too big to hold all the love we get? Can solitude taste like the numb strumming of a guitar? How many years...
.png)
The bench told the family that while it understands their concerns, their daughter was a 26-year-old woman, who was a nurse in Saudi Arabia, and capable of...
He had thought of her as she was, as her name spoke of: a single star. And now the star had burnt out, consumed by the vastness of the galaxy.
As Ma laid her healing hand on her back, Anisha felt like she had magically inserted some fallen, missing piece of a little bone back into her column of...
A narrative of loss: of innocence, and freshness in love. When the dust settles on a relationship, the heart learns to let go. But we still hold on to the old...
After their passionate first kiss, they never get to meet again. Under the fading moonlight, when cold breeze blows over the hills, he secretly remembers her
You can’t explain love to a plant or philosophy to a dog. We feel only what we understand. And he felt love for me. He wanted me to understand that.
For a year, Reema carried on her unspoken love affair with Rashid: Texting him, meeting him at restaurants, losing herself in his warm embrace at hotels.
The story of the famously reclusive surbahar ((bass sitar) player, who was hailed as a virtuoso and was poised to be star, but erased herself from the public...
‘You think ill of me but I would think well of you and your family and friends and you would ultimately realise that in this tug of war between terror and...
The protagonist of my first novel is bisexual, but not ashamed of being one. She is neither defined nor restricted by her sexuality. In crafting her, I have...
When a monsoon-crazed teenager kisses his crush for the first time, its frenzied taste sends his adrenaline rushing for days.
Actor Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna's onscreen chemistry was first seen in Telugu blockbuster 'Geetha Govindam'.
