love
“दोस्त” का इकलौता विकल्प ख़ुद “दोस्त” है। स्थिर और एकमात्र।
If my sexuality is an integral part of who I am, then friendship is where I hope I can be who I am.
The only substitute for “friend” is “friend” itself. Irreplaceable, singular.
How am I bringing myself into the erotic moment I am sharing with a lover?
We all are members of ‘The Side People’. No, we don’t sit around a table every Saturday to cry.
On calls your voice greets me, balm to the parched everything.
सबसे ख़ूबसूरत बात यह है कि समावेशी दोस्ती समाज में भी बदलाव लाती है। जब दोस्त एक-दूसरे को बिना भेदभाव अपनाते हैं, तो यह उदाहरण बनता है और धीरे-धीरे एक ऐसी संस्कृति का निर्माण होता है जहाँ विविधता को सम्मान और स्वीकार्यता मिलती है।
Today I told him that rain wasn’t from evaporation or condensation. I said clouds cried because they missed water so much.
My birthday is in May, a peak time of summer heat in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh. We knew that it was going to be hot, but did not have any idea of how bad it could get.
सेक्शूऐलिटी और जलवायु परिवर्तन के कारण जलवायु आपदाओं के बीच का रिश्ता भले ही सीधा न दिखाई दे, लेकिन यह बेहद गहरा और महत्वपूर्ण है।
Language is one of the most intimate things we share with one another, more than bodies, more than time.
To be politically queer in a new language is an intoxication of all senses, revelation, outrageous freedom.
I soon realised how central language is to our understanding of the world, and how language constitutes the limits and possibilities of our experiences and identities.
It is not a word you expected in this poem,
Or in any poem at all.
… that feels so personal to me as a teenage girl, because it is indeed, “so confusing sometimes to be a girl.”