Niyati Pingali

A global nomad growing up, Niyati Pingali discovered her love of books and theatre at a very young age, and moonlights in backstage roles in local theatre productions wherever she lives. Due to graduate in The Netherlands with an MA in development studies in 2022, she plans to change corporate mindsets by day, and feel the thrill of backstage by night.

Sex, Intimacy, and the Argument for their Separation

By Niyati Pingali / Issue 34, Intimacy, Magazine / 11 minutes of reading

My first kiss was with a girl when I was about eight years old. It was not at all sexual, but it was extremely intimate. Minnie* and I kissed as a show of force: many in my class found the idea of same-sex connections strange (or even abhorrent – how could two people of the same …

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A Spotlight on Singapore’s Theatre Scene

Theatre is one of those artforms that transcends boundaries. When Thespis first took to the stage enacting his poetry for an audience, he formalised a style of entertainment that parents and children had been experimenting with for generations. In doing so, for more than two millennia, he has enabled the likes of us to search …

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