An Indian gay unwinds..

The love bites still hurt. Angry purplish in color, they are clearly visible on both napes of neck. Standing at the station waiting for the train, I can see (or imagine!) the look of curiosity in people’s eyes when instead of focusing on my face, their gaze is deflected to the bruises on the neck.  And strangely I feel happy! For all of it to make sense, I have to go back to the very start.  More than 4 months have passed since I came to Mumbai. Ist Semester is already over. Back to back so many exams were too much for me to handle and in the last few, I didn’t even care what I was writing. On the social front I had mostly cut myself from most of my friends and colleagues, primarily because I was busy with exams. Finally when they got over  last week  finally I put up some pictures on a popular gay dating website. I was looking for nothing in particular, was pretty much open to everything but was unsure of how to move forward with it.  Let me t...

My first visit to an entirely new city, a city hailed as "City of dreams" by many ...a city which never sleeps..a city where thousands pour in everyday in hope of injecting a new lease into their lives..the most gay friendly city of India..MUMBAI !!!! After a long & arduous task of written exams followed by interviews spanning almost a whole year, here I am, staring out of a beautiful & almost wall sized window of my apartment in a multi storied building reflecting the turn of events that brought me from an almost nondescript town in North India to this amazing city which now I call home :) It has almost been a month since I have moved here & the first thing I fell in love with here are RAINS...Almost suddenly they'll catch you in between, drench you completely within minutes & then disappear with an equal swiftness leaving behind a soggy trail & an irritated mind. But even then,...

Happy New Year everyone !! I sincerely hope that this new year brings joy, happiness & contentment to all of you in ways you never imagined & take away your sorrows & pain forever !! So the week leading to this new year (the 52nd week of 2011) has been one hell of an experience for me. I OFFICIALLY CAME OUT to my parents a few days ago !!! It was a no holds barred intermittent discussion spread over 2-3 days sprinkled with lots of drama, emotions, weird moments & deafening silences & what not ! So here's my story of what happened, how it happened & 'who said what'.. PROLOGUE  - Struck up in life & stagnating at the same place for long I was contemplating coming out to my family since long but was searching for the perfect time but always there was some or the other issue cropped up like my dad's ill health, their professional problems, etc  umpteen such things to push my coming out to the back burner. Me being the youngest & the...