Why I Dance

Here's a piece - Why I Dance - I wrote for Dakshina Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company in Washington, DC, with whom I have been collaborating for the last three years

Joining forces in the fight for equality

Another article/report by me in the New Indian Express. Saturday, 14 November 2009

Silence to Homophobia amounts to Complicity

My article in the Sunday edition of The New Indian Express, 31 October 2009: Silence to homophobia amounts to complicity

One right does not undo many wrongs

Do check out my article in the Saturday magazine of The New Indian Express, published on 19 September 2009: One right does not undo many wrongs

Kalachuvadu Articles

sharing links to my articles in Tamil that have appeared in Kalachuvadu magazine

(1) வேட்டைக்களமல்ல விளையாட்டுப் பொருளல்ல - an anti-homophobic review of the film "Vettaiyadu Vilayadu," Kalachuvadu, Issue 82, October 2006

(2) தமிழ் வாழ்வில் காதல் - an autobiographical piece, Kalachuvadu, Issue 83, November 2006.

(3) தோட்டத்தில் இரகசியமாக - On a short story by Jean Arasanayagam, Kalachuvadu, Issue 85, December 2006

(4) காத்திருத்தலின் கலை அனுபவம் - a review of Sandra Chatterjee's "Waiting for Rasika," Kalachuvadu, Issue 90, May 2007

(5) பாலியல் உரிமை - transcript of a speech delivered at a seminar கருத்துரிமையும் வாழ்வுரிமையும் in June 2008 - Kalachuvadu, Issue 104, August 2008.

(6) பெயர் சொல்லத் தொடங்கும் காதல்கள் - Kalachuvadu, Issue 103, July 2008,

(7) காதலும் காமமும் - உடைபடும் கற்பிதங்கள் - Kalachuvadu, Issue 115, (though I write this, it is better to mention it as Kalachuvadu editorial, I think)

Dance of Death

One of my poems has appeared in the September issue of the online journal Danse Macabre. Titled "Dance of Death," the poem keeps to the overall theme of the issue - Totentanze

Wislawa Szymborksa - Translations

Do check out my Tamil translation of Wislawa Szymborka's Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1996) from English (original Polish) - published in Kalachuvadu
and also
my translations of some of her poems, again from their English translations by Stanislaw Baranczak and Claire Cavanagh