friendship
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
Friends of Paper, Friends of Flesh
That’s what books do, they open up the world to new possibilities, let you live a life bigger than your own.
By Ambica Naithani
November 17, 2025
November 17, 2025
We’re Friends
If my sexuality is an integral part of who I am, then friendship is where I hope I can be who I am.
By Shikha Aleya
October 15, 2025
Having a Tea with You
On calls your voice greets me, balm to the parched everything.
By Carol D'Souza
October 15, 2025
दोस्ती, मस्ती, यादें और मिरांडा
कुछ साल पहले ही मुझे एहसास हुआ कि जब भी मैं भविष्य के बारे में सोचती हूँ, तो मेरे मन में हमेशा अपनी सबसे करीबी महिला मित्रों की तस्वीर उभरती है। मेरे हर फ़ैसले पर सबसे ज़्यादा असर उन्हीं का पड़ता है…
By Ambica Naithani
October 15, 2025
Not Quite Anything
He didn’t wear his identity on his sleeve, and therefore he seemed more real than most people who did.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
May 19, 2025
The Birds and the Bees: On Play and Sexuality
How would we see the world really, if we were open to the idea that it is not purpose but play that drives us to seek companionship, be it an orchid seeking a pollinator or a human seeking another?
By Shweta Krishnan
January 13, 2025
एकल जीवन की सराहना
Growing up, for me, has been about accepting that the loneliness and sadness woven into the fabric of my being do not go away with entering conventional arrangements like monogamous relationships or marriage.
By Siddhi Pandey
August 20, 2024
राख से सोना बनाना – कैसे मध्यम आयु वर्ग की महिलाएं यौनिकता और आध्यात्मिकता का जश्न मनाती हैं
The most satisfying spiritual and sexual experiences I’ve had were not in my twenties, thirties or even forties. They have been in my 50’s. The most insightful spiritual insights, and the most orgasmic orgasms have both arrived in middle age.
By Nighat Gandhi
Friendships, or, That in which we decouple coupledom from the economies of marriage
I was not simply stuck within the binaries of “same-sex” or “opposite sex,” assuming that any reference to “same-sex” is in itself already revolutionary. But the call to recognise friendship, is a call to recognise so many forms of community that are made invisible by the emphasis within a liberal or conservative framework on “marriage” as the only path to family making.
By Shweta Krishnan
Walks, Braids, Miranda, and Memories
This was the time we were growing up, learning new things, reading new books and discovering something new almost every day, and this all-women space provided an opportunity to do that without requiring any pretence or catering to the male gaze.
By Ambica Naithani
November 15, 2022
Two Poems: ‘A room of one’s own’ & ‘Sunshine’
A room of one’s own You couldn’t begin to say the self Before someone helps you finish — Self-centred Self-serving…
By Carol D'Souza
September 19, 2022
Two Poems: ‘Only sometimes’ & ‘No filter’
Only sometimes Sometimes my love is as expansive as the earth itself Patient None of the restlessness of a…
By Carol D'Souza
May 3, 2022
Dancing around each other: Conversations with a Tween
As a generation X-er I grew up in a world that was challenging sexuality but only encountered the instability of gender as an adult in radical new academic texts which were not then yet part of our everyday narratives. My daughter born between Gen Z and Gen Alpha is growing up in a world of gender fluidity and multiple pronouns.
By Shilpa Phadke
March 15, 2022