Desire
The novel turns the idea of masculinity on its head through the story of Brit, a boy who is as sharp as he is fragile. Born with osteogenesis imperfecta, Brit’s bones break easily, but his spirit doesn’t.
He didn’t wear his identity on his sleeve, and therefore he seemed more real than most people who did.
CSE’s ‘natural habitat’ is often considered to be the classroom, but as our contributors show us, CSE also lives, breathes and thrives in habitats as disparate as neighbourhood parks, jobs-training centres, playgrounds and sports fields, law schools, family discussions, and digital spaces.
Without explicit attention to desire, intimacy, and emotional negotiation, legal concepts remain abstract rather than practicable.
… spaces led by the desire to not just protect but also educate all who connect with children…
CSE survives in information as well as in the values that carry it forward.
डिजिटल मीडिया ने भारत में CSE को नई दिशा दी है। इंस्टाग्राम रील्स, यूट्यूब चैनल और आधुनिक कहानी-आधारित सामग्री ने न केवल जानकारी का लोकतंत्रीकरण किया है बल्कि युवाओं में आत्मविश्वास, समझ और संवेदनशीलता भी बढ़ाई है।
Friendship – a place where we can be ourselves as we truly are, with no artifice. A place of peace,…
That’s what books do, they open up the world to new possibilities, let you live a life bigger than your own.
The Debrief is a girlhood ritual as old as dating itself.
“दोस्त” का इकलौता विकल्प ख़ुद “दोस्त” है। स्थिर और एकमात्र।
The only substitute for “friend” is “friend” itself. Irreplaceable, singular.
But we always, always know that when it’s the two of us, a label or a word isn’t needed or necessary. We both get each other.
How am I bringing myself into the erotic moment I am sharing with a lover?
… that feels so personal to me as a teenage girl, because it is indeed, “so confusing sometimes to be a girl.”