“I don’t remember the last time I heard the term ‘intimacy’, ‘healthy lovemaking: aka sex’ in literature. It is associated more with a taboo that we hardly talk about. We have been taught to close our eyes when there is a lovemaking scene in a movie or whatsoever. Such a shame that we live in a world where these scriptures are all embellished in stones carved each with the perfection that symbolises the mating of nature and the energy themselves on temples.

I am Gayatri Sriaadhibhatla, a writer, who writes tragic poetry, the pain and melancholy give a kick that happiness doesn’t. Everyone from my family was into Biology but no one chose medicine as a career. Though I was a Biology student, I told my parents that I didn’t want to become a doctor. I moved to Bangalore and did a course in Journalism. That’s where I really picked up the writing part and started writing poems, small paras. But then, I realised I was not good with general fiction and somehow, writing Erotica became a thing.

So, I started writing Erotica and discovered that it can be explained in different genres, one of them was 50 shades of grey and it’s just sad to see India, being the land of Kamasutra that not a lot of Erotica writers are seen publishing their work.
Not that I have hatred spiking up for the society but we are treated extremely low if we take up a piece of art like so. They assume that, because we write such things, we ask for it and that has been the stereotype that I personally deal with. Even though I might be happy, I would pick up and write something sad. Even if it would just be a thought, I would just want to simply write. I used to get a lot of hate and questions from my near and dear ones, a lot of them don’t know I write such stuff but my parents know I write Erotica. My dad supported me and asked me to write with the caution that I have to deal with whatever comes my way.

Everybody is a writer but not everyone can write, this is something that I learned from writing. I think, writing helps you de-clutter those musings when you can’t tell anything to anybody when you can’t keep a secret or even when you’re just feeling heavy or maybe you’re just too scared, writing helps. When I was in Bangalore, I wanted to stay there and I even told my parents so. But destiny has other plans and I landed back in Hyderabad this April in search of a job and guess what? Life is unpredictable and so is love, I found mine last year and we decided to get married this December.

From Bangalore to this city, I had faced immense criticism but also many gems had supported me in this journey. Today, I am about to release my pocket poetry book in the erotic genre and I just hope people can read and connect to it with just a little bit of an open mind.”