Continuing our conversation on community building, Curious Cat is diving into the world of intimacy with filmmaker, writer and founder of Agents of Ishq website, Paromita Vohra, on its 5th anniversary. I am asking how she got to Agents of Ishq via filmmaking and writing and what the future looks like for this community that is built on shared ideas of love, sex and desire. Come along. 

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Agents of Ishq website: http://agentsofishq.com

Agents of Ishq on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agentsofishq/

Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker, writer and dedicated antakshari player whose work explores feminism, love and desire, urban life and popular culture. She is also the founder and Creative Director of AGENTS OF ISHQ India’s best-loved website about sex, love and desire. Her documentaries include the landmark films UNLIMITED GIRLS, Q2P, MORALITY TV AUR LOVING JEHAD: EK MANOHAR KAHANI and PARTNERS IN CRIME, WHERE’S SANDRA?, COSMOPOLIS: TWO TALES OF A CITY, among others which have been internationally broadcast and also shown at the Tate Modern and Wellcome Art Gallery. She is the writer of the film Khamosh Pani, the comic Priya’s Mirror, the play Ishqiya, Dharavi Ishtyle and several documentaries. She writes a weekly column, PARO-NORMAL ACTIVITY, in Sunday Midday and previously wrote the column How To Find Indian Love in the Mumbai Mirror. Her fiction and non-fiction have been widely published in several journals, periodicals and anthologies and she has created two installation pieces – So Near Yet So Far (NGMA) and A Love Latika (Goethe Institut).

 In 2012 Time Out listed her as one of 10 people to change how Indians watch films. She has served on numerous boards and juries and spoken at universities around the world.