(As said to Sambuddha Acharya) (Names changed to protect identity) My name is Anand Ganguly, and I’m married to a lesbian. I come from a very humble, middle-class family based in Kolkata. My father was an engineer who was indifferent to his job and, ironically enough, wanted me to fill his shoes. Click here to […]
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As told to Stotropama Mukherjee I grew up in a time when we didn’t know the word lesbian in our city. Gay men just meant happy people. I wasn’t aware of who or what I was while growing up. It was not till my first year in MA that I openly used ‘bisexual’ to describe
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As told to Eleena Sanyal (Names changed to protect identities) My husband Lalit and I brought up our sons in Mumbai. I recently retired from a public sector job and Lalit retired 3 years ago as a scientist although he says, could a scientist ever retire? My older son Milind is now 31 and Kshitij
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“Hey Ajay, are you gay?” I asked, as we smoked spirals into the branches of the tree overhead. At the back of my mind I thought to myself, “What’s the worst that will happen? He will be offended.” We were both lecturers at the same college, teaching the same classes. He taught management studies, I,
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I go by the name of Nomad. Some even call me Hobo. Primarily because for the last seven years of my life I have been floating. Floating in the sense that I had no permanent home address and I was job-hopping every three months while studying full-time. I am Muslim and gay. I’m from a
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I think we’re all different flavours in the stirring pot of life, and we do things differently. That’s what makes us unique and builds us up as humanity. It’s funny to see how different we are as men and women, and how gay and straight couples do things differently. The Surprising Advantages Of Being a
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(As told to Vineeta Asthana) She joined our office that summer. A 27-year-old hyperactive and very talkative girl. In the very first week, she told me almost everything about her past and present. Also, she shared her plans for the future. She’d often give me a friendly hug and I didn’t mind it, since she
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(As told to Pooja Sharma Rao)Names changed to protect identities Today I sat again by the huge French window in the attic of our ancestral palatial house located on the Jakhu hill in Shimla. The city lights spread out below me like a dark blanket studded with stars. Today I was again thinking about my
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(As told to Saurabh Das) While growing up and studying in an all-boys school, I observed that I was attracted to men sexually. During my initial years, I couldn’t understand it much, treating it just as another hormonal adventure. However, when I passed school and reached college, the attraction increased. But I was not gay,
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Bahucharaji Mata is one of the many ‘avatars’ of the Shakti goddess which is worshipped in Gujarat. She is depicted astride a rooster and is one of the important Shaktipeeths in Gujarat. Goddess Bahucharaji is considered to be the primal deity of the transgender community of India. Legend has it Bahucharaji was a daughter of Bapal
