My relationship with my father is complicated to say the least. He is a wonderful provider, and has ensured money was never an obstacle for me to fulfil my educational dreams. His handwork and swear has put me through expensive high schools, and a foreign degree, and it was clearly [...]
Shweta Mishra, aged 21, met her ex-boyfriend at a friend’s party. They soon became close and started seeing each other. The guy had recently gotten out of one relationship and used to get very abusive at times. He would get drunk and talk about his ex-girlfriend which badly affected her [...]
Ever since I was fifteen, I have been trying my very hardest to lose my virginity. But for some reason, the damn penis just refuses to enter my vagina. I tried in a million positions, with multiple penises, but my vagina remains locked up like an old storage room. See [...]
(That Sex Education Never Could) There are twelve girls sitting on the floor. One of them is miming something with unusual objects- a hair clip, a bottle of glue, a tube of lotion. Everyone is roaring with laughter. This was a scene from my hostel days in high school. The [...]
Young people today are faced with a unique contradiction when it comes to sex and sexual experiences. On one hand, an older generation of parents, mentors and teachers largely believe that pre-marital sex is wrong, and that young people should not express their sexuality in any way at all. We [...]
I failed to consider two things that fateful night when I logged on to Omegle. com. One, that the electricity in our home was out, and my room, like everything else was shrouded in darkness. Two, my bedroom door was in fact, wide open, not securely shut. So while I [...]
At the age of 15, after spending 8 hours continuously watching porn, and realising that this was the 5th night that week I had spent like that, I had to admit to myself that I was indeed addicted to porn. The realisation struck home a singular type of terror and [...]
I must have been somewhat 15 or 16 and was getting quite restless more so because of my increase in sexual curiosity. I had no girlfriend and none of my classmates had one. It was the monsoon of 1999 and we were in a Panchgani boarding school. Miss Roberts was [...]
There are 1,30,000 rape and molestation cases pending in courts that are spread all across our country. On an average 30,000 weddings happen in India every day. The former route is not feasible, don’t even think about it. The latter is a path for those who want to manage high-end [...]
When I was 13 years old, I was in class 7th. I sat with a boy who was dirty in his mind. This is not what I thought about him but other kids told me so. They also warned me to be beware of him. One day, this dirty boy [...]
Long time back I suffered through a breakup. I cried overnight; sitting on the desk of my cubicle; while returning home from office. In short, I cried all the time. At that time, I felt that the world has got over for me, all my dreams have withered and I [...]
This morning on the metro ride, a young teenager stood in front of me. She was scribbling notes to herself in her mobile and I could not help overlook her phone. There were a few words she mentioned in that long note to herself Ego, Loss, Responsibility. A word cloud of relationships, I [...]
As a child, I had the first claim on food cooked and ordered for special occasions. Father bought Spongy jaggery Rôshogollas in Clay Handi from 'Deshbandhu Sweets' on his way back home from the office, whenever guests were due to arrive. The count of Rôshogollas was one per family member [...]
