Ashna With The Ways

6/2/2016 – The day of the annual LGBTQ pride parade at Mumbai. Like every year scenes seemed same to a level but there was something more to it. The support, the ray of hope after the curative petition being accepted at the apex court, more and more people coming out in support and international media walking along with the crowd helping to spread the word about equality, was something to look forward for in our near future. But even today, people from the community are looked down upon as criminals even by the ones we call family, friends & colleagues. I interviewed two amazing people this year ;Mayuresh and Soniya. I asked both a few questions and I’m sure after reading this post if you are a homophobic then to some extent it should be able to eradicate this thought process of yours. Soniya Soniya, an interior designer who works for a Delhi based Company as a senior executive in Pune, might look different to the orthodox thinkers but she is just like you

MUMBAI – PART 2 Mumbai, the land of Bollywood. The land of Corporate affairs. The mecca for trade. Mumbai is truthfully the jack of all and master of all trades. The biggest reason for Mumbai being the land of dreams is obviously our hundred and two year old Bollywood.  For this sole reason hundreds and thousands of people migrate to this “Nagriya”. By this short intro above you must have guessed what the second is all about. Nope it’s not Bollywood. It is life through the eyes of a struggler. People talk about how stardom feels like, what success is or the story behind it. You might get a short reply in brief, “that indeed I worked hard, gave a said number of auditions and finally here I am, cherishing the taste of success”. But a majority of them struggle almost for a major time of their life give up by trying and facing shitty politics and seeing resourceful kids getting in without knowing what struggle actually means. For starters let’s just imagine that you are in Lokh