“I’M AN ‘INDIAN LESBIAN’. AND THIS IS MY STORY…”

—The Anonymous Author

“If you met me, you wouldn’t be able to tell that I’m in a same-sex relationship for the last three years. Quite like a heterosexual couple, we don’t want sexuality to define us. We live together, bicker over big little things, share daily chores and holiday expenses, and sleep in the same bed. It is 2019, after all, and we are not criminals in our country, courtesy of the Supreme Court partially striking down Section 377 last December. The secret life, however, fades in the selective company of friends, colleagues, and family. And we have found liberation in living honestly; should it matter then that our building members know us as ‘family friends’?

If you met us, you would be able to tell that we are practical romantics—levelheaded and reckless in equal measure. A colleague