The answer is simple. If you are truly sympathetic and supportive, you let it show. You can do it without saying a thing. Just for posterity, I’m going to tell you about two ‘coming-out’ conversations that I’ve been a part of. Each one is a sweet memory, a verbal token…
A French colleague remarked that there were a lot of gay men in India. It gave me insight into how language varies across geography, even body language.
Some time ago I was at the receiving end of the unsolicited and unreciprocated attentions of stranger. At 30, I’ve learnt to deal with such situations, practically on auto-pilot. What made this situation different was that this time, there was a woman at the other end. The details of the…
The challenge was to write a 140-word story about Twitter on a timer. I call this a twory and it was written in 14 minutes. It’s about Equal Sins.
I was preyed on by someone hiding behind the rainbow flag. It made me introspect on what is prejudice and what is instinct. The moral dilemma continues.
When I was a kid, the apartment two floors above us was occupied by two ladies. They were both teachers. One of them was tall and stern-looking. The other one was short, roly-poly and generally jovial as you would expect someone of such a build to be. Both of them…
I was at a seminar with a group of people recently when one of them declared that he was gay. In the lunch break, one of my friends slipped over to me and whispered, Of all the people, I never would have guessed that this guy was gay. I didn’t…
If your family isn’t people who share a blood line, why is it people who share a sexual orientation?
My friend and founder of Gaysi, India’s first blog for gay people invited me to contribute, asking if I’d like to be the straight voice of a gay desi blog.
Motherhood. Have you thought about it? I have.