Volume 006: Pleasure and Danger Archives

Beyond Clickbait: A Reporter’s Guide to Representing Queer Lives in Regional Media

November 6, 2025

The TTE-queerbeat Fellowship Programme is a collaboration that seeks to produce, mentor and platform stories by queer folks in Hindi. These stories explore sexuality in the rural context, through the facets of consent, desire, romance and risk, and aim to understand how debates in the wider sexuality discourse and grassroots organisations speak to the realities of queer individuals outside big cities.

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Good Touch Bad Touch

October 16, 2025

When ‘good girl’ Vidhi is propositioned by charming Ayaan, she tentatively agrees. But what will happen when he asks her for a dangerous favour?

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Pehli Raat

October 15, 2025

On the first night after their wedding, a bride and groom are consumed with anticipation. The million-dollar question is: Who will make the first move?

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Shaadi

October 15, 2025

As Bollywood has taught us, weddings are self-replicating phenomenons: one leads to the other. In this playfully pious shebang, when two strangers meet, not one word is needed for everything to be communicated.

Sense is a Thing You Feel, Not Make

October 10, 2025

In drama school, we used to spend a lot of time standing around. Now, as soon as I say that, I imagine a chorus of actors yelling at me, saying, “C’mon — we weren’t just ‘standing around’!” Of course not. I meant, we were arriving into neutral bodies — shedding, lengthening, becoming… the ready actor. I think. It’s hard to fully say.

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Waha Ke Baal

October 8, 2025

For the first time in 17 years, Vidhi is travelling alone for a workshop. What adventures and discoveries await her? Is she prepared for all that her inner world will reveal?

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Chupa Hua Romance

October 8, 2025

What happens when a late-night swim turns into an erotic adventure? To see or to be seen, that is the question. 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.

Should I Feel Disgusted By My Sexual Fantasies?

October 6, 2025

From an early age, I felt a constant need to express myself sexually. I wouldn’t call myself ‘sexual’ (even as the sexuality educator in me screams, ‘There’s nothing wrong with being sexual!’). On the sexuality spectrum, I lean towards demisexuality.

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Single Bed

October 3, 2025

‘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?

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Bulli Ka Photo

October 1, 2025

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.

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