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Author: Devrupa Rakshit

A writer by passion, lawyer by education, painter by shaukh, and poet by accident – Devrupa Rakshit is Calcutta-tempered and Bombay-based. An undercover Jedi Padawan, she is enthusiastic about all things fish and fishy. When she’s not binge-watching re-runs of Seinfeld, day-dreaming about settling down in a Hobbit-hole, or recording her podcast #DateNightsWithD on Spotify, you can find her millennial-ing on Instagram @devruparakshit.

The Lesbian Friendzone: Do You find Yourself Caught Too? — Love + RelationshipsPersonal Stories

Devrupa Rakshit

The Lesbian Friendzone: Do You find Yourself Caught Too?

Falling In Love With Your Best Friend — Guest Author

Falling In Love With Your Best Friend

Musings Of A Desi Lesbian — Guest Author

Musings Of A Desi Lesbian

Queer Wedding Alert!: Vaibhav And Parag — Guest Author

Queer Wedding Alert!: Vaibhav And Parag

Poem: Going Through My Instagram 3 AM At Night — Guest Author

Poem: Going Through My Instagram 3 AM At Night

Theatre Play : Ila By The Patchworks Ensemble — Guest Author

Theatre Play : Ila By The Patchworks Ensemble

Of Ropes And Borders: Being Queer In The Anti-CAA, Anti-NRC, Anti-NPR Protests

#SaddaHaq : Chandigarh Pride March — Guest Author

#SaddaHaq : Chandigarh Pride March

Understanding LGBT Health Awareness Week — Guest Author

Understanding LGBT Health Awareness Week

Dear Bollywood, Stop Telling Me I’m Not Enough — Guest Author

Dear Bollywood, Stop Telling Me I’m Not Enough

Film Review : Qissa — Guest Author

Film Review : Qissa

Forces Behind The Rainbow Glory — Guest Author

Forces Behind The Rainbow Glory

Pride — Guest Author

Pride

10 Funsies Gifting Ideas This Pride — Guest Author

10 Funsies Gifting Ideas This Pride

Justice Katju’s Homophobia Restores Faith In Humanity — Guest Author

Justice Katju’s Homophobia Restores Faith In Humanity

People ‘Like That’ — Guest Author

People ‘Like That’

Private Matters — Personal Stories

Anon

Private Matters

How To Love Someone Without A Gender, A Manual In Four Parts. — Guest Author

How To Love Someone Without A Gender, A Manual In Four Parts.

First Dates With Pretty Girls — Guest Author

First Dates With Pretty Girls

My Body Is Not An Error — Guest Author

My Body Is Not An Error

Why The Solidarity Song? by Kavita Baliga — Guest Author

Why The Solidarity Song? by Kavita Baliga

Confessions — Guest Author

Confessions

Review : The Pad — Guest Author

Review : The Pad

Experiencing Homophobia In Gender Studies Classroom — Guest Author

Experiencing Homophobia In Gender Studies Classroom

All Poets Have A Sad Story — Personal Stories

Rohini Malur

All Poets Have A Sad Story

The Booth — Guest Author

The Booth

Poem: The Only One — Guest Author

Poem: The Only One

Poem: How Do You Know? — Guest Author

Poem: How Do You Know?

Review ‘Brahman/i’ : A Well-Intentioned Slap In The Face — Guest Author

Review ‘Brahman/i’ : A Well-Intentioned Slap In The Face

Stage Play Review : C Sharp C Blunt — Guest Author

Stage Play Review : C Sharp C Blunt

My Closeted Lover — Guest Author

My Closeted Lover

Movie Review : Call Me Kuchu — Guest Author

Movie Review : Call Me Kuchu

Poem: Don’t Tell Me To Cut My Hair — Personal StoriesSex + Body Positivity

Anshumaan Sathe

Poem: Don’t Tell Me To Cut My Hair

Gay Lib: A Voyeur’s POV — Guest Author

Gay Lib: A Voyeur’s POV

Being A Muslim Lesbian Of Pakistani Descent — Guest Author

Being A Muslim Lesbian Of Pakistani Descent

Pride Ki Kahaani, Do Pyaar Karne Valon Ki Zubaani: A Couple’s Experience Of Pune’s 9th Indradhanu Pride — Guest Author

Pride Ki Kahaani, Do Pyaar Karne Valon Ki Zubaani: A Couple’s Experience Of Pune’s 9th Indradhanu Pride

Poem: Path To Acceptance — Guest Author

Poem: Path To Acceptance

Poem: A Naïve Sin — Guest Author

Poem: A Naïve Sin

Poem: From Bindi With Love — Guest Author

Poem: From Bindi With Love

Not Just A ‘Tomboy’ — Guest Author

Not Just A ‘Tomboy’

Me, Your Desi-Drag King — Guest Author

Me, Your Desi-Drag King

Nothing New — Guest Author

Nothing New

Things I’d Do Before I Came Out — Guest Author

Things I’d Do Before I Came Out

How ‘Made In Heaven’ Brought My Mom and I Closer. — Guest Author

How ‘Made In Heaven’ Brought My Mom and I Closer.

Poem: Dress Man — Guest Author

Poem: Dress Man

Poem: Closet Of Monsters — Guest Author

Poem: Closet Of Monsters

“Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” To A Queer BBC (British Born Confused) — Guest Author

“Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” To A Queer BBC (British Born Confused)

Singing In A Choir Helped Me Find My Queer Community — Guest Author

Singing In A Choir Helped Me Find My Queer Community

Photo Essay: After 377, What Do Desi-Queers Want? — Guest Author

Photo Essay: After 377, What Do Desi-Queers Want?

Graphic Story: Booked! — Guest Author

Graphic Story: Booked!

Graphic Story: Matching With Serendipity — Guest Author

Graphic Story: Matching With Serendipity

Graphic Story: A Lip-Smackingly Amazing Match — Guest Author

Graphic Story: A Lip-Smackingly Amazing Match

My Kind Of Queer — Guest Author

My Kind Of Queer

My Friends Were There When Family Failed — Guest Author

My Friends Were There When Family Failed

Film Review : Bombay Talkies — Guest Author

Film Review : Bombay Talkies

Event Review : The Amazing Q Hunt (Mumbai Pride 2013) — Guest Author

Event Review : The Amazing Q Hunt (Mumbai Pride 2013)

Graphic Story: I Wanted To Be The Man Of The House — Guest Author

Graphic Story: I Wanted To Be The Man Of The House

Queer Is Power — Guest Author

Queer Is Power

Book Review : Turbulence by Samit Basu — Guest Author

Book Review : Turbulence by Samit Basu

All India says Stop Killing Gays in Uganda!! — Guest Author

All India says Stop Killing Gays in Uganda!!

Photo Essay: Cruising, A Moment Of Discovery And Self-Defining. — Guest Author

Photo Essay: Cruising, A Moment Of Discovery And Self-Defining.

Queerabad: The Ahmedabad Queer Pride Parade — Guest Author

Queerabad: The Ahmedabad Queer Pride Parade

Snatched Wigs & Snatched Attention: Mumbai LGBTQ+ Pride, 2018 — Guest Author

Snatched Wigs & Snatched Attention: Mumbai LGBTQ+ Pride, 2018

Walking My First Pride March — Guest Author

Walking My First Pride March

Book Review : “Quarantine” by Rahul Mehta — Guest Author

Book Review : “Quarantine” by Rahul Mehta

Book Review : “The Artist of Disappearance” by Anita Desai — Guest Author

Book Review : “The Artist of Disappearance” by Anita Desai

Three Years After The Historic NALSA Judgment, Have Trans Indians Truly Benefited From It? — Guest Author

Three Years After The Historic NALSA Judgment, Have Trans Indians Truly Benefited From It?

Poem: Flowers Of Fire — Guest Author

Poem: Flowers Of Fire

Seven Drag Queen-Inspired Make-Up Looks To Celebrate! — Guest Author

Seven Drag Queen-Inspired Make-Up Looks To Celebrate!

In Conversation With Gopi Shankar Madurai, The Intersex Activist Who Is Changing Lives And Gender Politics In India — Guest Author

In Conversation With Gopi Shankar Madurai, The Intersex Activist Who Is Changing Lives And Gender Politics In India

5-Point Wishlist For A Trans-Safe Workplace — Guest Author

5-Point Wishlist For A Trans-Safe Workplace

To Everybody Who Is Listening And Who Isn’t — Guest Author

To Everybody Who Is Listening And Who Isn’t

10 Must Watch Films at KASHISH 2012 — Guest Author

10 Must Watch Films at KASHISH 2012

Poem: Forbidden Love — Guest Author

Poem: Forbidden Love

Photo Essay: Walking With Pride In Dehradun — Guest Author

Photo Essay: Walking With Pride In Dehradun

Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival : Looking For Contribution — Guest Author

Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival : Looking For Contribution

If You’re Not Fighting Caste, You’re Not Going To Benefit From Our Latest Fundamental Right — Guest Author

If You’re Not Fighting Caste, You’re Not Going To Benefit From Our Latest Fundamental Right

The LGBTQ Movement Needs Allies: Here’s How You Can Be One — Guest Author

The LGBTQ Movement Needs Allies: Here’s How You Can Be One

A To Z: Queer Celebrities Who Saved And Inspired Me — Guest Author

A To Z: Queer Celebrities Who Saved And Inspired Me

A To Z: Queer Celebrities Who Saved And Inspired Me — Guest Author

A To Z: Queer Celebrities Who Saved And Inspired Me

4-Part Poem On LGBTQ Workspace In India — Guest Author

4-Part Poem On LGBTQ Workspace In India

Queering Space: A Photo Essay On Bombay — Guest Author

Queering Space: A Photo Essay On Bombay

Gender Identity: Artistic Expression Vs. Aesthetic Oppression — Guest Author

Gender Identity: Artistic Expression Vs. Aesthetic Oppression

Poem: You And I — Guest Author

Poem: You And I

Poem: False Stage — Guest Author

Poem: False Stage

Let’s Make Queer Women’s Spaces More Transperson-Friendly — Guest Author

Let’s Make Queer Women’s Spaces More Transperson-Friendly

Kinky Confessions – Why We Love To Play? — Guest Author

Kinky Confessions – Why We Love To Play?

Interview : Miss Congeniality, Kashish Chopra (Part 2) — Guest Author

Interview : Miss Congeniality, Kashish Chopra (Part 2)

Interview : Miss Congeniality, Kashish Chopra (Part 1) — Guest Author

Interview : Miss Congeniality, Kashish Chopra (Part 1)

A To Z: Queer Celebrities Who Saved And Inspired Me — Guest Author

A To Z: Queer Celebrities Who Saved And Inspired Me

The Elusive Unicorn That Is Lesbian Style — Guest Author

The Elusive Unicorn That Is Lesbian Style

Wake Up To Cyberbullying Of LGBT Youth In India — Guest Author

Wake Up To Cyberbullying Of LGBT Youth In India

Do You Talk In Bed? — Guest Author

Do You Talk In Bed?

A Bum’s Tale — Guest Author

A Bum’s Tale

Poem: An Ode To My Gay Son — Guest Author

Poem: An Ode To My Gay Son

Politics Of A Blow Job — Guest Author

Politics Of A Blow Job

The Kids Are Sleeping — Guest Author

The Kids Are Sleeping

The Anatomy Of An Orgasm — Guest Author

The Anatomy Of An Orgasm

Video Release: Rainbow In A Brown World — Guest Author

Video Release: Rainbow In A Brown World

Poem : Taking It Easy — Guest Author

Poem : Taking It Easy

Sex Toys & Losing Your Inhibitions — Guest Author

Sex Toys & Losing Your Inhibitions

My Poem For Warding Off The Darkness — Guest Author

My Poem For Warding Off The Darkness

Film Review : Tomboy — Guest Author

Film Review : Tomboy

Poem: A Christmas Rhyme For A Happy & Gay Time — Guest Author

Poem: A Christmas Rhyme For A Happy & Gay Time

Film Review : Mountain — Guest Author

Film Review : Mountain

Film Review : She Monkeys — Guest Author

Film Review : She Monkeys

Will You, My love? — Guest Author

Will You, My love?

Part 2 : Goodbye, Avocados! — Guest Author

Part 2 : Goodbye, Avocados!

Part 1 : Goodbye, Avocados! — Guest Author

Part 1 : Goodbye, Avocados!

What It Means To Be A Bisexual Guy In India — Guest Author

What It Means To Be A Bisexual Guy In India

Short Fiction : The Bestie — Guest Author

Short Fiction : The Bestie

My Thoughts On K Se Kink — Guest Author

My Thoughts On K Se Kink

Putting The Mast Back in Masti : K Se Kink Review — Guest Author

Putting The Mast Back in Masti : K Se Kink Review

Poem : Go Fuck Yourself — Guest Author

Poem : Go Fuck Yourself

Not So Simple Life Of A Simple Middle Class Gay Man — Guest Author

Not So Simple Life Of A Simple Middle Class Gay Man

The Jacaranda Blossom — Guest Author

The Jacaranda Blossom

Ramblings Of A Queer Desi Female. — Guest Author

Ramblings Of A Queer Desi Female.

Gali Mein Aaj Chand Nikla : A Gay Man’s Yearning For Love — Guest Author

Gali Mein Aaj Chand Nikla : A Gay Man’s Yearning For Love

Event Review : Desiring Indians — Guest Author

Event Review : Desiring Indians

Love Without ‘Conditions Apply’ — Guest Author

Love Without ‘Conditions Apply’

Mourning, With Love — Guest Author

Mourning, With Love

9 Television Series LGBTQ Indians Should Be Watching — Guest Author

9 Television Series LGBTQ Indians Should Be Watching

8 Indian Queer Films You Must Watch — Guest Author

8 Indian Queer Films You Must Watch

Holding Hands — Guest Author

Holding Hands

Film Review : Dear Dad — Guest Author

Film Review : Dear Dad

A Transman In India — Guest Author

A Transman In India

Reaching Beyond The City: The LGBT Literatures in Indian Bhasas — Guest Author

Reaching Beyond The City: The LGBT Literatures in Indian Bhasas

Phobia – Not My Cup Of Tea. — Guest Author

Phobia – Not My Cup Of Tea.

To B Or Not To B, The B In The LGBT — Guest Author

To B Or Not To B, The B In The LGBT

An Open Door — Guest Author

An Open Door

Bullying – At The Workplace In Modern India — Guest Author

Bullying – At The Workplace In Modern India

Two Lesbian Women And I — Guest Author

Two Lesbian Women And I

Bullying Is Not A Joke! — Guest Author

Bullying Is Not A Joke!

Taking The Bully By Its Horns — Guest Author

Taking The Bully By Its Horns

Bullying, Another Name Of Fun? — Guest Author

Bullying, Another Name Of Fun?

The Shame Of Being Raped — Guest Author

The Shame Of Being Raped

Interview : Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil — Guest Author

Interview : Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil

Visual Piece : Growing Up In Reverse — Guest Author

Visual Piece : Growing Up In Reverse

Comic : I Walked The Mile — Guest Author

Comic : I Walked The Mile

Being Gay, It Is A Rich Man’s Problem — Guest Author

Being Gay, It Is A Rich Man’s Problem

It Started With Being Called “Four Eyes”. — Guest Author

It Started With Being Called “Four Eyes”.

Peeling The Orange — Guest Author

Peeling The Orange

Thus Spoke Ms K — Guest Author

Thus Spoke Ms K

Call For Submissions: Coming Out Stories — Guest Author

Call For Submissions: Coming Out Stories

Dissecting The Gay Angle In “Kapoor And Sons” — Guest Author

Dissecting The Gay Angle In “Kapoor And Sons”

The Truth Untold — Guest Author

The Truth Untold

Book Review : Two Girls — Guest Author

Book Review : Two Girls

Curative Petition On IPC 377 : Hope We Do! — Guest Author

Curative Petition On IPC 377 : Hope We Do!

Lady Gaga, Bollywood Remix & A Disheartened Monster — Guest Author

Lady Gaga, Bollywood Remix & A Disheartened Monster

The Story — Guest Author

The Story

Chin Up — Guest Author

Chin Up

Poem : Love Lost, Love Alive! — Guest Author

Poem : Love Lost, Love Alive!

Coming Out Or Not. — Guest Author

Coming Out Or Not.

Poem : Unfulfilled — Guest Author

Poem : Unfulfilled

Interview : Urmi & Madhuri, Dancing Queens — Guest Author

Interview : Urmi & Madhuri, Dancing Queens

My Father’s Son — Guest Author

My Father’s Son

What If We Treated All Crimes Like We Treat Sexual Assault? — Guest Author

What If We Treated All Crimes Like We Treat Sexual Assault?

Artwork : Lie To Me — Guest Author

Artwork : Lie To Me

Poem : The Trail of Lavender — Guest Author

Poem : The Trail of Lavender

Gay Men Of Gajon Company — Guest Author

Gay Men Of Gajon Company

Love/Sex Story — Guest Author

Love/Sex Story

Book Review: Pink Sheep — Guest Author

Book Review: Pink Sheep

Poem : Who am I? — Guest Author

Poem : Who am I?

India’s Celluloid Closet : Year in Review — Guest Author

India’s Celluloid Closet : Year in Review

The Karela Story So Far… — Guest Author

The Karela Story So Far…

Poem : I’m Sick And Tired — Guest Author

Poem : I’m Sick And Tired

From Sambhaji Park To Q-Fest Pune 2010 — Guest Author

From Sambhaji Park To Q-Fest Pune 2010

Poem : Predilections By Choice — Guest Author

Poem : Predilections By Choice

Copy-paste or Sabotage? — Guest Author

Copy-paste or Sabotage?

If It’s A Copy It’s Not Right — Guest Author

If It’s A Copy It’s Not Right

Artist Profile : Raqib Shaw (Part 2) by Sharmistha Ray

The Uranian Love: A Social Stigma — Guest Author

The Uranian Love: A Social Stigma

Artist Profile : Raqib Shaw (Part 1) by Sharmistha Ray

Poem : Let Me — Guest Author

Poem : Let Me

The Rainbow of Love : A Poem for the Queer — Guest Author

The Rainbow of Love : A Poem for the Queer

Dosti & So Much More… — Guest Author

Dosti & So Much More…

Photography Series : Fighting Into Oblivion — Guest Author

Photography Series : Fighting Into Oblivion

Live Your Life as If You’re One — Guest Author

Live Your Life as If You’re One

5 Ways To Deal With a Gay Proposal If You Are Straight — Guest Author

5 Ways To Deal With a Gay Proposal If You Are Straight

Lessons From A Girls’ Night Out In A Dhaba — Guest Author

Lessons From A Girls’ Night Out In A Dhaba

Artificially Induced Gender Dysphoria In Alan Turing? — Guest Author

Artificially Induced Gender Dysphoria In Alan Turing?

The Closure — Guest Author

The Closure

Poem : The Day I Say “I Do” — Guest Author

Poem : The Day I Say “I Do”

Free Falling — Guest Author

Free Falling

Rejection — Guest Author

Rejection

My Baby Boy Wants To Dress As Dora — Guest Author

My Baby Boy Wants To Dress As Dora

Poem : Politics Of Fucking — Guest Author

Poem : Politics Of Fucking

Attitudes & Trans Inclusion In Indian Academia — Guest Author

Attitudes & Trans Inclusion In Indian Academia

Rainbow Country — Guest Author

Rainbow Country

Justice Katju’s Homophobia Restores Faith In Humanity — Guest Author

Justice Katju’s Homophobia Restores Faith In Humanity

How Different Are You? — Guest Author

How Different Are You?

The Kiss — Guest Author

The Kiss

Suicides — Guest Author

Suicides

Queery! — Guest Author

Queery!

Bengaluru Pride & Karnataka Queer Habba 2010 — Guest Author

Bengaluru Pride & Karnataka Queer Habba 2010

The Art Of Letting Go — Guest Author

The Art Of Letting Go

A Hundred Thousand — Guest Author

A Hundred Thousand

Poem : Delete — Guest Author

Poem : Delete

Open Letter To Modi From An Indian Gay Man — Guest Author

Open Letter To Modi From An Indian Gay Man

Profiling : Dosti.Ca — Guest Author

Profiling : Dosti.Ca