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“No, that’s not how it was, bitches!” – ‘Postcards from Colaba’, an innovate theatrical romp through Bombay’s lived queer history.
A sumptuous experience to relive my gay twenties and thirties through Vikram Phukan’s innovative and moving Postcards from Colaba — which seeks to bring alive a slice of Bombay’s lived queer history. Combining live theatre, audio files on messaging apps, and a one-kilometre traffic-dodge through our beloved, heaving metropolis, this plucky, gritty cast and crew… Continue reading
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Fear and Freedom: Navigating Success and Love in Queer India
Prima facie, fears do seem to be obstacles to success. Often we freeze or flee when confronted by challenging situations. If we allow these fears to limit us, to shut out our sense of possibility, then yes — they can stymie success. But if we learn to harness them, to see them not as cages… Continue reading
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Owning it: How Hugging Club of India is empowering queers and straights alike to find support through mental illness
Umang Sheth is all heart. Having seen him bounding across the stage hosting GayBombay Parents’ Meets for over a decade since 1999, getting parents of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders to open up about the issues they and their families were facing, to establishing two dynamic organizations that have their finger on the pulse of… Continue reading
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