This report comes to you at a time when questions around who can be family and whether adult citizens of this country have a say in formin

The Tamil Nadu government has notified a glossary of terms in English and Tamil to be used including in the media to address and describe people from the LGBTQIA+ community as per a Madras high court suggestion.

The queer collectives at different Delhi University colleges have been growing and are now being formally recognised by the administrations too.

While sexuality and issues relating to it have come up periodically in the past, it is only now, with the growing feminist concern with the rights of women to their lives and bodies, that sexuality has gained a more enduring prominence.

Violence and sexuality share a circular relationship: violence not only sets the parameters of individuals sexuality, it also affects their sexual persona and makes sexuality a space of fear and shame.