‘Do you live alone? Or with someone?” This question takes on an unexpected weight when Ruhani brings her college friend, Ankita, home. What will be said? Can friendship survive silenced desires?
A tuition class takes no time to transform into a jungle in the absence of the teacher and shy Jehan is an easy prey for the young bullying girls of Pakur, Jharkhand. If you have ever wondered if Gossip Girl could be set in rural India, this episode is your answer.
Where does one actually receive sex education? How does one know what to do and what to expect on the first night after marriage? F se Field, Issh se Isshq is a series of audio stories emerging from the lived realities, desires and fantasies of young and middle aged persons engaged in development and education work.
Is blood thicker than semen? When a mother finds out her daughter’s worst and most poorly-hidden secret, what will she do?
F se Field, Issh se Isshq is a series of audio stories emerging from the lived realities, desires and fantasies of young and middle aged persons engaged in development and education work, living on the rural-urban spectrum.
Can a playful joke turn into a moment of revelation for two mischievous friends? We bring to you a taste of what it means for a young adult to feel all the feelings, straight from Pakur, Jharkhand.
In his short story, B takes us to the mountains and animates the slow burn between identity and intimacy. This piece was developed as part of The Third Eye’s Sexy Log mentorship initiative, where a cohort of ten people across India worked independently on their experiences of sexuality, with the prompt of Pleasure & Danger.
Sounds of mourning and celebration are overlapping in the neighbourhood. Sharafat Bhai’s life is going to change completely after his first wife’s death as he is set to marry a younger girl. Will the doe-like youthful beauty that he adores and worships age well? Or, will time play its game and turn happiness into jealousy? Sexuality is, after all, a fickle mistress.
Queering the Pitch: Life and Times of Saleem Kidwai is a short film that traces the legacy of historian and writer Saleem Kidwai. Best known for co-editing Same-Sex Love in India, a landmark text in the fight against Section 377, Saleem’s life also opened up quieter, radical possibilities of the queer lens — ones that transcended binaries, rewrote cultural hierarchies, and made room for joy, complexity, and chosen kinship.
When friends — or we ourselves — berate the wrong decisions we have made in love, we tend to think about the situations that psychoanalyst Bruce Fink calls the ‘pull paradigm’. The story of love has been constructed such that it has us assuming there is something about the other person that ‘pulls’ us towards them. In this ‘pull paradigm’, we assume that desirability has an important role to play in determining who we form an intimate relationship with.
