MAKEOVER 2019

What will make Delhi-ites’ lives better in 2019? The infrastructure is certainly set to improve this year – fingers crossed! Delhi has undergone destruction seven times, as author William Dalrymple mentioned in his book City of Djinns, only to be resurrected with modern developments. Currently, it is in its eighth phase of development — and […]

How to feed your libido

Some foods are supposed to have aphrodisiac qualities — and chefs have special dishes to get the mood right Looking for some food that will help get you in the mood for love? There are mythical foods that have been associated with love and fertility and have been around for centuries. Believe in their powers […]

Rural playboys

Folks of Prempura village discuss their sex life and sexuality. There seems to be an air of denial, for they call homosexuality a ‘playful act’ This was when the ‘Kiss of Love Campaign’ against moral policing in Kerala became popular across the nation, many young people were seen hugging and kissing in public to demand […]

Not ‘boy’ enough

Revealing all about one’s sexual escapades is not necessarily a step forward in emancipation, as this new confessional account shows “My purity cannot be decided on the standards of society. My purity is to my own self, my own parameters.” Red Lipstick: The Men in my Life is Laxmi Narayan Tripathy’s second book. Her first […]

Swiping right can go wrong

Hooking up on a dating app like Tinder often leads to happy endings but sometimes one partner reads the signals wrong and nasty situations develop Harsh Singhal (name changed), 20, a fashion design student in Delhi, met a person on Tinder who he thought was “good-looking and polite.” After talking for a day and meeting […]

In search of a platform

Gay magazines have played a key role in helping individuals come out. They are now hoping to find it easier to raise funds and hold events When the first issue of Bombay Dost — India’s first LGBT magazine — came out, it became an inadvertent vehicle for those who were still in the closet to […]

Figuring it out

VIOLENT CRIMES According to the latest government figures, 1.7 lakh women were raped between 2012 and 2016— which translates to an average of four women being sexually assaulted every hour over that span. A 2017 survey revealed that 40% of transgender people faced some sort of sexual abuse before turning 18. The survey, conducted by […]

When love turns brutal

The sexual stigma involved in same sex relationship leads to greater brutality in passion killings of homosexuals All is fair in love and war. Most gory murders are those driven by passion. But when deviant sexuality is a cause, it adds another dimension. Many of the gay murders that have come to light are by […]