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Danish Sheikh

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Sep 9, 2026
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Aug 25, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · by Danish Sheikh

    The Bangalore Queer Film Festival 2010 (opens the original)

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    “There is a moment that comes in your life, if you’re queer. It’s a moment of utter loneliness, when you realize that the world isn’t exactly designed for people like us. At this point, we scavenged. We took the novels we read and changed the pronouns of the protagonists. We saw films and changed the gender of the hero or heroine. We read between lines, we found spaces between cracks, we desperately looked at any gesture of affection : anything to know that somewhere, in someone, there was a mir

  2. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · by Danish Sheikh

    Poet Law-reate (opens the original)

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    It happened in the middle of a particularly stressful assignment. There I was, sitting at my laptop, at the desolate hour of 2.20 AM, when I decided. Enough. Nyet. Nimph. Nope. No More. I’d had it. I was spewing down line upon line of blank verse in the document where my taxation case comment was being typed out. And that’s how it started. My inner poet awoke, and has refused to die out since then. While this is all very well, I’ve been compelled to find out more about this strange condition. Wa

  3. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · by Danish Sheikh

    Courts of Love : A lawyer's lament (opens the original)

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    I want to haul you down to a Love Court You’ll get the notice any day now Probably on pink paper Or atleast an angry shade of red It’ll come enveloped in a heart-shaped folder Which you’ll have to rip apart at the seams But then, you’re good at that kind of thing - Aren’t you ? You broke my heart in the winter, And again in the summer rain, And if I didn’t drag you to court, You’d just do it again This Court of Love, it’s not a happy place, Its title isn’t quite apt, You appear before it, when l

  4. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · by Danish Sheikh

    365 Days without 377 (opens the original)

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    We’re fast approaching the 2nd of July : the date of the Naz Foundation judgment. You know the one, the one with the operative paragraph that went something like this : We declare that Section 377 IPC, insofar it criminalises consensual sexual acts of adults in private, is violative of Articles 21, 14 and 15 of the Constitution. I look back at how a 105 page document has affected my life over the last year. Class hour. I feel the buzz of a new message on my phone, but I can’t check it just yet.

  5. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · by Danish Sheikh

    NALSAR Bound ? STOP. (opens the original)

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    Hello. Made it ? Decided to Come ? Right. Welcome. Newbie, THIS is why you should RUN for your life in the other direction : 1) Heard about places in the middle of nowhere ? Well, get to the middle of nowhere, then take a left, and go down a 2.8 km stretch. That’s Nalsar. We’re 25 DAMN KM from Hyderabad. See, this isn’t really Nalsar, Hyderabad . It’s Nalsar, the hamlet of Shameerpet. 2) The chief attraction within a 5 kilometre radius is a deer park. The chief attraction within a 10 kilometre r

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