The I Column

A Critical View Of Sexual Health Education In Iran
Two people wearing hijabs sit at a small table behind a foggy window

When I was 16, I thought: ‘Some topics in physics have no benefit for students throughout their life. For instance,…

By Nikzad Zangeneh
December 1, 2013
A Critical View Of Sexual Health Education In Iran
I Column: I Can See Clearly Now
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I knew that I was gay since time knows when. The society made me know. Be it my friend’s snarky…

By Guest Writer
January 1, 2014
I Column: I Can See Clearly Now
I Column: Shades of Grey
Five transgender women dressed in colourful sarees, standing in the middle of the street.

Introduction: As this first-person account of Anita, a Devadasi in Maharashtra, Western India illustrates, issues of consent and violence/coercion cannot…

By Anita
February 1, 2014
I Column: Shades of Grey
WOMAN. ENOUGH.
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It’s that time of the year again. Those 31 days during which we, the 49%, have a chance to be…

By Vani Subramanian
March 1, 2014
WOMAN. ENOUGH.
Options Not Choices
Photo of abortion activist Rola Yasmine. She has shoulder-length brown hair and fair skin. She is wearing a casual shirt.

To write about safe abortion, I picture what the best-case scenario is for someone seeking a safe abortion in Lebanon.

By Rola Yasmine
April 1, 2014
Options Not Choices
Being Thin… Being Me
Photo of bodypositive activist Ekta Oza. She is wearing dark-rimmed glasses, a blue patterned kurta and her hair is tied back. She is looking to her left and laughing.

Which one of these is the right question to ask myself: When was the first time I realised I was thin? Or, when was the first time I was made to realise I was ‘different’ and there was something wrong with me that needed to be fixed? Or, when was the first time I defined myself as a thin person and was comfortable being so?

By Ekta Oza
May 1, 2014
Being Thin… Being Me
Too Big
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Why do we always assume that violence is done to us by someone else and not that we do it to ourselves quite easily and then have a million explanations to justify why we do not eat, why we use Fair and Lovely face cream, why we spend hours in the gym under duress, and why we focus incessantly on how much one has gained or lost in kilos and not in a metaphysical sense?

By Pramada Menon
May 1, 2014
Too Big
Law and Sexuality
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I graduated from a Law School in Bangalore in 2012 and moved back to my hometown, Lucknow, U.P., where I…

By Neetika Vishwanath
June 1, 2014
Law and Sexuality
Finding Your Feet – Journeys within Dance Movement Therapy
A group of women circling each other and dancing while waving colourful streamers.

This is a good enough place to begin. From inside your own skin. Before we could speak, we moved. We…

By Arpita Bohra
July 1, 2014
Finding Your Feet – Journeys within Dance Movement Therapy
Sexless in the City (For No Fault of Mine)
A picture of disability rights activist Malini Chib sitting on a wheelchair. She is has black shoulder-length hair and is wearing glasses. Her top is white with black stripes and her trousers are black. The text beside her reads 'One Little Finger, Malini Chib'

If a woman likes a man, she seduces him with her charm, wit and humour. This, I have seen, works….

By Malini Chib
August 1, 2014
Sexless in the City (For No Fault of Mine)
Relationship and companionship don’t exist in isolation
A man sits on a wheelchair. He's wearing a blue sweatshirt and blue trousers. A child in a bright pink sweater leans against his wheelchair

It was very interesting to read Sexless in the City (For No Fault of Mine) by Malini Chib and the…

By Amrit Hallan
August 15, 2014
Relationship and companionship don’t exist in isolation
Am I ‘The Man’ On The Court?
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I find that sports spaces demand that all athletes, irrespective of their gender, ‘play like men’. I was recently coaching…

By Supriya Subramani
September 1, 2014
Am I ‘The Man’ On The Court?
How the popular media fails representation of women
Picture of Anshul Tewari, the founder of Youth Ki Awaaz. He's wearing a black shirt and dark rimmed glasses

Being a journalism student once, and having a network of seniors and batch mates who came from a journalism background,…

By Anshul Tewari
October 15, 2014
How the popular media fails representation of women
I-Column: A Trip To The Ladies’
Two blue doors against a white wall, one having 'gents' and the othe rhaving 'ladies' written over it. beside them, there is a white sink.

Remember Simone de Beauvoir said, one is not born a woman but rather becomes one? A trip to the ladies’…

By Shweta Krishnan
November 1, 2014
I-Column: A Trip To The Ladies’
SEXLESS IN THE CITY (FOR NO FAULT OF MINE)
A picture of disability rights activist Malini Chib sitting on a wheelchair. She is has black shoulder-length hair and is wearing glasses. Her top is white with black stripes and her trousers are black. The text beside her reads 'One Little Finger, Malini Chib'

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
SEXLESS IN THE CITY (FOR NO FAULT OF MINE)
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