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Until I chose to live
Until I chose to live
This one’s from the archives. I drew this way back in 2013-14 I think, while I was struggling with fitting into an Engineering college, it simply didn’t seem right. It was stifling, and heart breaking to see myself struggle, and I don’t want to blame anyone for where I was. The blame-game never solves a problem anyway. Art and finding my identity became my topmost priority, as is for any 18 year…
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I Feel Unsafe, and it Wasn't Meant to be This Way
I Feel Unsafe, and it Wasn’t Meant to be This Way
From one of those carefree days in Delhi. Picture by: Savi Back in 2009, I’d walked into Noida, a city that falls under the belt of National Capital Region or NCR, as we call it, with a pocket full of dreams and aspirations. I’d hoped that moving in to Noida from Kaniha, a small village in the outskirts of Talcher, Odisha would be my pathway to a better, happier life given the relatively…
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| The one with the Sketches |
| The one with the Sketches |
Some of my favorite pencil sketches from over two years ago, still feels like yesterday!
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Since I discovered Photoshop (that was back in July 2015), I’ve been trying my hand at different styles of sketching and illustrating using the available set of tools in the software. But all throughout remains my love for colors, and almost all the brights colors in the entire spectrum. Kolor me Kitsh came out as a small experiment during Christmas of 2016, when I simply wanted to make something other than fashion illustrations. I still go back to making these when someone wants me to sketch them in this particular style. You can place your orders on the Customised Art website here. Prints start at 500 INR. You can share any of my following images as a reference while placing the order and we’ll be at it. Don’t forget to share your thoughts on my work, I’d love to hear your suggestions, ways I could improve on my work and if you think my work’s worth a share, then please go ahead. 🙂
Peace out.
Kolor Me Kitsch Since I discovered Photoshop (that was back in July 2015), I've been trying my hand at different styles of sketching and illustrating using the available set of tools in the software.
Ugly Enough to be Mr. Gay World India
Ugly Enough to be Mr. Gay World India
I don’t think I would’ve ever thought about writing an article about this, especially months after having been through the sort of Internet bullying I was subjected to, not that it made me feel any less fabulous about myself (mostly because I honestly don’t give a fuck). But I’m very well aware of what the general mentality of the entire gay community in our country is like and you might not…
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The Indelible Muck
To one incredible year of being Mr. Gay World India, 2016. The B/W pictures were shot in Malta, Europe during the pageant by Bradley Secker. You can find more of Bradley’s work here. When I’d started off Effeminare back in 2014, (amidst all the resistance that there was) I believed that if I could reach out to even one individual, then that would be enough. I still can’t decipher what had…
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I don’t think I would’ve ever thought about writing an article about this, especially months after having been through the sort of Internet bullying I was subjected to, not that it made me feel any less fabulous about myself (mostly because I honestly don’t give a fuck). But I’m very well aware of what the general mentality of the entire gay community in our country is like and you might not know, but you could be affecting someone else’s self-esteem majorly and you really shouldn’t. I was blessed enough to have a childhood where my parents never told either of me or my sister that we had to be fair enough and well-built enough and good-looking enough to achieve our dreams in life. Neither of us were insecure of the way we looked, or wished for our butts to be bigger, for our noses to be longer and sharper, or for our jaw lines to be more well-defined to be successful in our life. The only thing we were time and again reminded of was how we had to be more focused, how we must meditate to concentrate better and never stop learning to be better versions of ourselves. But interestingly, not many of us seem to have been taught of any of this through all those years we managed to exist. Minutes after I won Mr. Gay World India in the month of January, the social media was exploding with, “He’s too ugly to represent our country”, “Oh he didn’t even bother to shave his beard before the pageant”, “He’s too dark to represent me!”, “India couldn’t find a hotter representative?” I laughed them all off! And I’m not trying to be my beauty pageant politically correct self here. Not one bit! If you know me, you’d also know how head-strong I am when it comes to sticking to my conscience and standing by what is right. And I’ll tell you why it didn’t affect me. Because I was made to feel so small each day I went to school, that nobody could’ve made me feel any lesser about me and my existence. I never expected people to find me beautiful on the outside, because it is hardly what defines me. But in the last couple of days I’ve come across way too many friends of mine who keep telling me how they don’t think they’re beautiful, and that is a problem. The way you look on the outside is nothing more than simple grooming. And all your face lifts and beefed up chests can never compensate for your inner darkness.
Nobody saw through how Mr. Gay World India and Mr. Gay World challenged traditional notions of beauty and gave everyone the right to feel beautiful about their selves. And why exactly should I feel any less pretty of the way I look? Because I didn’t fit into your stupid fucked up and limited notions of beauty? Or that you couldn’t come out of your virtual world of Grindr and Instagram filters? Come out of your little shell and let yourself be a part of the world of possibilities. Value yourself with the number of great books you’ve read over your WhatsApp texts, or the number of lives you could change for the better over the number of guys/girls you slept with (do it because you want to, not because you want to tell the world how cool your life is over theirs). You are perfect the way God made you and you don’t have to compare yourself with others (even though we’re all guilty of it). Interestingly, while I was being picked on for being way too ugly to represent India, my good friend Esteban, Mr. Gay Argentina 2016 was being picked on for being his muscular self and not being a representative of the average gay men across his country.
We live in a world today where body-image issues make up a huge part of our life, unfortunately, and that is a very dangerous world to live in. If I don’t judge you for the gazillion surgeries and implants you’ve got to achieve your perfect notion of beauty, please refrain from judging me from the surgeries I chose not to get done on myself. He made me beautiful. He made you beautiful. I am beautiful.
Peace out.
Ugly Enough to be Mr. Gay World India I don’t think I would’ve ever thought about writing an article about this, especially months after having been through the sort of Internet bullying I was subjected to, not that it made me feel any less fabulous about myself (mostly because I honestly don’t give a fuck).
Why you need to learn to say No!
Why you need to learn to say No!
I have been trying to get this out of my system for long now, but let’s just say it has been pretty difficult. In fact to put it in simple words, I’ve been scared to even talk about it, simply because it involves someone so influential and someone who I truly admired and we unfortunately don’t live in a world where we talk as much about men being sexually abused or touched inappropriately. I…
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| Why we should all be Humanists |
| Why we should all be Humanists |
The recent attack on Pulse, a gay bar in Orlando has been immensely shocking and devastating and has been a huge jolt to the LGBTIQA community from the entire world. Enough speculations have been made on how the attacker was a closeted homosexual and had been a regular at Pulse himself. But the attack is a reminder of how we are falling short in making the world aware of our presence and why we…
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Why you should talk about Sex and Sexuality with your Ma and Pa
Why you should talk about Sex and Sexuality with your Ma and Pa
Mum and Pa <3 I very clearly remember this one time my father, my sister and I were watching ‘Gladrags Supermodel Hunt’ on television way back in 2003-04 or probably before that and they had a swimwear round. So they had all the men and women parading down the ramp in thongs and under-wears and there was suddenly a strange awkwardness in the room. My sister and I looked at each other and my…
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A Gender And Sexuality Glossary For Parents
A Gender And Sexuality Glossary For Parents
I’ve always felt that it is extremely important for people to be aware of the vocabulary that is appropriate to use when referring to the LGBTIQ community, more so amongst kids so as to ensure that tomorrow they grow up to become responsible, sensitive and mature citizens of the country. As a result I collaborated with Swaddle– a parenting website for people who don’t like parenting websites. You…
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Exclusive Interview with Anwesh Sahoo – Mr Gay World India 2016 Had the honor of being being interviewed by TITAN Make Gods. Read the entire interview to know more.❤
Today We Begin
Because I have the most endearing and intelligent set of friends ever who have learned the skill of weaving words into such delightful pieces of art and you should not be missing out on these. Way to go Simran! <3
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Better than *Me*
My favorite picture of the lot today. Had the honor to be shot by Ara Alexander. Wonder woman at its best! A little excerpt from what I’d written back in December while I was preparing for Mr Gay World India, and I’d asked myself “What if it doesn’t work that way?” and this came out of that: “The biggest problem with us is that we don’t let ourselves accept the fact that it can also happen the…
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Beautiful You
The last couple of days have been extremely over-whelming with all the attention, love (mostly) and support I’ve received from the people around me and I will always be very grateful for every bit of it. This is going to be a completely self-introspective post and therefore parts of it might seem completely out of the blue, but I really feel like this is necessary and because it is something…
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The East Side Story of the East
“Once upon a time in a candy colored fantasy land lived a young and attractive little girl with soft golden hair in a lilac and pink colored castle eating porridge and apple pies all day. She wore an elaborate white silk dress with long sleeves and snow-white pearls stitched on the border, waiting in her balcony adorned with white petunias for her prince charming riding on a white muscular horse.”
Most of it had to be white.
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