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Choosing Between A Baby And Career

I waited for an hour outside Mithibai College to break the news to her. While clutching my wife’s blood reports that I had received the sa...

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Overcoming In-laws' Interference

When I look back eight years, I wonder how things changed for me. We have been through so many ups and downs and still managed to maintain o...

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Heard Of A Same Sex Marriage Agency Where People Also Find Love?

Benhur Samson is a business entrepreneur, who started a surrogacy company that supported all couples; the company being LGBT friendly. He te...

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Dating Is Great. Why Get Married At All?

Marriage is the culmination of nearly every love story. It begins as the end credits of any romantic movie roll; when the promise to spend y...

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In Love With My Wife, Because She's 'different'

My wife is somewhat eccentric if I go by the books of an ideal marriage that our society proposes. Even on the day we married, she refused t...

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My Indian Family Prefers The Closet

This has to be the most frank piece that I will ever write about being gay in the Indian culture as I draw from my own reality, of living wi...

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Saas, Bahu And Swaad!

With the utmost care, Sarmishta Sheth, all of eighty, folds the powdered pistachio into the traditional home-crafted shrikhand to create her...

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From Partners To Caregivers, We Did It All

I look at all the wires coming out of her body, her pale face and the machines surrounding her beeping constantly. I am in the ICU with my m...

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The Status Syndrome

I had decided to get married to Suresh*, an office colleague, but everything was not good as my Dad and Mom had not said yes. They knew Sure...

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Caught In India's Spell

“Cookie,” he said sitting in my lap.  “What did you say, Shiv?” I asked him. I must have scared him with my over-pitched ex...

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