Orinam’s Quilt (OQ3) meeting Feb 23, 2013: love and romance
Orinam’s Quilt, the reading group of Orinam, meets at Zha…
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Gender-Sexuality-Violence: panel discussion in Chennai, Feb 22, 2013
Film screening and panel discussion on gender, sexuality and violence on Friday Feb 22, 2013, as part of Prajnya’s film festival on gender violence at Goethe-Institut, Chennai.
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Queering Kamal Haasan
Some of his roles might have offended the LGBT community but Kamal Haasan’s career conveys a bigger message, writes Vishnu Ramakrishnan.
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Poem: time
fingers interweave in mutual remembrance: wordless farewells before you disappear…
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Poem: The Fifth and Final Arrow
I am hurt, These wounds even Cupid cannot heal, Why…
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Bharatham is my love, Mohini is who I am
Everything seemed so auspicious. I was bathed in turmeric powder…
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Poem: Nails
I like them short. Not because they identify me as…
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My Valentine
I have been trying to have relationships for many years…
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The original L Word
Essays, poems and a short story on love for V-Day 2013
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Vishwaroopam: a queer critique
A movie like Vishwaroopam takes us even farther back in its retrogressive portrayal of queer masculinity as deviance. Such portrayal by a mass hero will only reinforce the already prevalent hatred and prejudice against the much maligned sexual and gender minorities.
