On July 27, 2025, a young Dalit man named Kavin…

She deserves more than a life in disguise, More than a loveless bed and a man of lies.

You are a contradiction – history tangled with progress, caution woven into care. You hold us, yes, but sometimes at arm’s length, with unspoken conditions pressing between us. You are a city that not just welcomes but lets people thrive – vandhaarai vaazha vaikkum Chennai – but only if we learn how to navigate you, how to create our own shelter within your vastness.

Poem by Meshy on Queer Joy

As a Tamil queer man and someone who is no stranger to desire, I feel I have a rightful claim to the universality of Valluvar’s vision of love.