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Editorial– Friendship and Sexuality
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Editorial– Friendship and Sexuality

Friendship – a place where we can be ourselves as we truly are, with no artifice. A place of peace,…
By TARSHI
November 17, 2025
Editorial– Friendship and Sexuality
जब ज़मीन सूखती है, तो हमारी ज़िंदगी जल उठती है
Dried earth wall
जब ज़मीन सूखती है, तो हमारी ज़िंदगी जल उठती है

सेक्स वर्क को जलवायु परिवर्तन के नज़रिए से कम ही देखा जाता है, लेकिन इस संबंध को समझना ज़रूरी है
By Bharati Takale Shukla
September 18, 2025
जब ज़मीन सूखती है, तो हमारी ज़िंदगी जल उठती है
When the Land Dries, Our Lives Burn
Dried earth wall
When the Land Dries, Our Lives Burn

When the land fails to feed, the city becomes both hope and trap.
By Bharati Takale Shukla
August 19, 2025
When the Land Dries, Our Lives Burn
Queer Withholding and Caste Attachments
Collage image of the zine Across the Nala
Queer Withholding and Caste Attachments

You can make a belonging out of ephemeral objects, desires, and memories. Associations and relations that are not dependent on possession.

By Rohit Rajak
August 19, 2025
Queer Withholding and Caste Attachments
In Search of Ochin Pakhi
Two baul singers sitting on the ground of an open space and performing
In Search of Ochin Pakhi

The aim of this piece is to bring to light the inherent queerness marking Baul folk music in Bengali, an oral undocumented spiritual expression that transcends heterosexual impositions and classism.
By Taniya Basu
June 17, 2025
In Search of Ochin Pakhi
Take Desire For Instance
A tiny robot made out of amazon cardboard box looks solemnly is placed on a tree branch
Take Desire For Instance

Could it be that other changes in our lives make it even more difficult to conceive the desire of the ‘other’, specifically of those with whom we don’t share as many conversations, with whom we’ll soon, I expect, lose entirely the ability to speak?
By Cat D
March 17, 2025
Take Desire For Instance
सार्वजनिक सेक्स और शहरी स्थानों में पुलिस
A photo of heterosexual couple sitting cross-legged on a rampart beside the sea. The man is wearing a blue shirt and there are shopping bags beside him. Beside him, only the mid-length hair of the woman can be seen. In the horizon is the city skyline of Mumbai with skyscrapers and other buildings at golden hour.
सार्वजनिक सेक्स और शहरी स्थानों में पुलिस

शहरी स्थानों को पुनः प्राप्त करने के लिए, सार्वजनिक स्थानों पर प्यार और रोमांस की पुलिसिंग या निगरानी के कई पहलुओं को देखना महत्वपूर्ण है
By Shruti Arora
March 17, 2025
सार्वजनिक सेक्स और शहरी स्थानों में पुलिस
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging
water drops on water base
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging

Who gets to imagine this utopian sociality, or future, of the queer movement?

By Susmit Panzade
October 17, 2024
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging
Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree
Freeda performs Nazar ke Samne at Agaaz Theatre, Nizammudin, Delhi.
Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree

Maraa means ‘tree’ in Kannada and it is the nature of a tree that we wish to embody, with strong roots, branches in different directions, growing tall but also wilting, dying and beginning again.
By Angarika Guha
October 17, 2024
Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree
Issue in focus
Black polka dots of different sizes against a yellow background.
Issue in focus

Companions take many forms. Using the word very loosely here, a companion is anyone the self is connected to, anywhere, at any point in time, from a family member, to a stranger on a train. 
By Shikha Aleya
November 15, 2022
Issue in focus
Editorial – Mental Health and Sexuality
A close-up photograph of a daisy
Editorial – Mental Health and Sexuality

Mental health, much like physical health, is a state of wellbeing and not just the absence of disease or infirmity….
By TARSHI
September 19, 2022
Editorial – Mental Health and Sexuality
Interview – Deepa Pawar
Training with nomadic tribe women & youth
Interview – Deepa Pawar

Deepa Pawar is the Managing Trustee & Founder Director of Anubhuti Trust, and is well-known for her work with NT-DNT…
By Shikha Aleya
September 1, 2022
Interview – Deepa Pawar
Of Identity and Belongings: The Gatekeeping within Queer Spaces
A close-up of chainmesh fencing.
Of Identity and Belongings: The Gatekeeping within Queer Spaces

I went to a girls’ high school and for somebody who had spent the last ten years in a co-ed…
By Shubhangi
September 1, 2022
Of Identity and Belongings: The Gatekeeping within Queer Spaces
Interview – Tishani Doshi
Photograph of a woman with long hair in red sari, sitting with a brown dog against a background of bushes with vines and pink azaleas. The woman is resting her chin on one hand and petting the dog with the other.
Interview – Tishani Doshi

I’ve essentially thought of movement as a kind of freedom, but one that has the capacity to destabilise you in some way. My most creative moments are when I’m not moving, when I am in fact rooted and still.

By Shikha Aleya
May 3, 2022
Interview – Tishani Doshi
Public Sex and the Police in Urban Spaces
A photo of heterosexual couple sitting cross-legged on a rampart beside the sea. The man is wearing a blue shirt and there are shopping bags beside him. Beside him, only the mid-length hair of the woman can be seen. In the horizon is the city skyline of Mumbai with skyscrapers and other buildings at golden hour.
Public Sex and the Police in Urban Spaces

While sex workers face repeated harassment by the police, many young couples face threats in a one-off incident if the police finds them with their partner/lover. They may face police surveillance of expressions of intimacy and affection in public.
By Shruti Arora
April 1, 2022
Public Sex and the Police in Urban Spaces
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