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Volume 006

Pleasure and Danger

Desire on the edge of a cliff

June 2025
Looking at the human experience – especially as it intersects with desire, sexuality, sex, body, age, violence, hunger and thirst – through the lens of the psyche.
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Feminist Stories of Ishq in Hindi

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Used Condom

Madhuri Adwani
Is blood thicker than semen? When a mother finds out her daughter’s worst and most poorly-hidden secret, what will she do?
Feminist Stories of Ishq in Hindi

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Love Bite

Madhuri Adwani
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.
Feminist Stories of Ishq in Hindi

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Khel Khel Mein

Madhuri Adwani
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.
Feminist Stories of Ishq in Hindi

Trailer: F se Field, Issh se Ishq

Madhuri Adwani
F se Field, Issh se Isshq is a series of audio stories emerging from the lived realities, desires and fantasies. All these narratives help us understand our encounters with sexuality by centering the psyche.
Devi Ganguly's artwork depicting a consensual romantic relationship set in the mountains

Odd Things

B
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.
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Queering The Pitch: Life and Times of Saleem Kidwai

TTE Team
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.
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