The I Column
Which one of these is the right question to ask myself: When was the first time I realised I was…
I started learning Bharatanatyam in 1988, when I was six years old. Looking back, it feels like beginning to learn…
I just celebrated my twenty years in India last October and designed a performance for the occasion: ‘What is dance?’…
A lot of research concludes that globally, young people aren’t learning enough about sexuality, and that they would like to…
At 13, I could (correctly!) explain the reproductive system of a plant. I’d been rather intimate with the anatomy of…
My discovery of erotic poems was, as they put it, ‘by chance’. A friend of mine had suggested a book…
We don’t have an original I-Column this month. Instead we feature the voices of two women, Deepika Padukone and Reshma…
I am a 26-year-old woman. Is there anything extraordinary about it? Maybe not. But there is certainly something extraordinary in…
It was at the end of the first week of October (2013) that my maternal uncle and I went to…
A very hot July afternoon had forcibly pushed both of us inside a fancy Delhi mall. The air-conditioner was bringing…
My experience of school, as I remember it, was quite conflicted. As a child I lacked the vocabulary to describe…
India is home to a whopping 17.5% of the total world population. Half of this population is its women. No, correction,…
[slideshow_deploy id=’6158′] I remember the first time I learnt of menstruation as a ten year old. One of our friends…
If the Internet didn’t exist, I believe I would be a highly insecure person. Don’t read that the wrong…
This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz. The author chose to remain anonymous. Menstruation was…