Sunsetting of ICN

A FINAL GOOD-BYE

Writer: Anupama Trivedi

I know that this may sound like a mere formality to announce that the time for sunsetting ICN has come. A lot of emotions come to my mind when I think about all the beautiful memories we made, the excitement to read stories, the enthusiasm of you all to give your feedback, the dreams we shared and lived, everything. How can I forget that during the Covid times, ICN was bustling with activity to give us happiness when our lives had turned upside down.

I can go on and on about what we accomplished here at ICN. But let me take a moment to share how I feel at this moment. I actually feel free as if a huge burden has been removed from my shoulders. The success of this platform actually meant a tremendous amount of work to publish things on a regular basis. And I was finding it very hard to meet these expectations.

How can I thank Ankita Sharma (who never wanted credit), Shruti Sinha and Prerna Desai who had been helping me with the process for a long time? I had a full team behind me supporting and encouraging me. Still it became too much for my personal life.

Given the huge reach of this platform, I thought we will be able to revive it again and use it for better use for our cross-dressing community. But all our team members including me, got occupied with their personal lives.

Moreover, the world has changed a lot since we started ICN. Now, most people like to engage with more visual content on Instagram and Youtube. So, I have decided to let ICN go and free ourselves of any expectations of the revival.

So, my dear ladies, this is a final good bye to all our loyal readers and the beautiful contributors. Thank you very much for the sweet memories and the love you gave me. Keep smiling and stay beautiful!

Anupama Trivedi

P.S. 1. You can write to me your final thoughts in comments and I will certainly reply.

P.S. 2. If I have to suggest some new page to visit, I would point you to Instagram profile of our co-founder Ankita Sharma. She has created a wonderful page for helping the Indian cross-dressing community. Follow her @open.ankita to learn everything about cross-dressing.

STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART

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Hello Friends

STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART

Hello beautiful ladies,

Hope you are having a great time in your life. And I hope you still remember me? Of course, you do. Otherwise, I would not have received 100s of emails during the time ICN had been dormant. So, without wasting your time, let me answer your questions here and tell you about the future plans for ICN.

What happened to ICN?

You all know that after a fantastic years of 2020-21, ICN went into a dormant stage in late 2021. We tried to keep the momentum going by flowing all the stories into our sister site ICN Extension in year 2022.

All this time, I kept on thinking about reviving ICN and start writing myself. But ICN never was one-person undertaking. There were wonderful people like Prerna Desai, Lakshmi Seetha, Preeti, Devika, Ankita Sharma, Shruti Sinha who all worked behind the scenes without receiving any acknowledgement in return. Prerna Desai was single-handedly running ICN extension for more than a year. Shruti Sinha and Ankita Sharma would help with editing and even write replies to the email that were sent to me. Lakshmi Seetha, Devika, Preeti were writing good quality stories and supporting us with their encouragement.

Makeover with Kritika

If cross-dressing is an art of creation, a makeover is the culmination of the pursuit for finding the image of a beautiful woman hiding within. When a makeover is done correctly, it can bring out a woman that is beyond your imagination and dreams.

Are you ready to bring out the most beautiful woman you have ever seen? If yes, then be ready to welcome Kritika – a makeover artist who understands the needs of cross-dresser like no one else. She is coming to Bangalore in July 2023 (6th-10th, details below in this page) to offer her expertise (We will post updates in this page whenever she is traveling to new cities). 

Now, some of you may already know Kritika, and others may be wondering  who is Kritika? And how did she start providing CD makeover services? What makes her stand apart? And why am I writing an article about her?

Before I tell you more about this lovely woman, I will let you visit her instagram profile where you will see her work with many of our CD sisters – some of whom dressed for the first time ever in their life.

Her instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/woomenlgbtq/

Kritika and her journey with CD Sisters

Mother’s Day Stories

MOTHER’S DAY SPECIAL

Mother’s day is a very special day for us girls. Many of us have been dreaming since our childhood about dressing up like our sweet moms. Their love and affection has taught us what it means to be a woman for us. Some of us even dream about a life where we could be a mom ourselves.

No wonder many writers at ICN had written several stories that covers this theme of a loving mother. In honour of this special day, I am presenting a list of selected stories from the past that deals with this subject. If you have read these stories earlier, you can relive it today. If you haven’t read it, then this is a good opportunity to do so.

Anupama

Table of Contents

Mom / माँ This is one of my earliest popular stories dedicated to Mother’s Day. You can read it and let me know if you still like this story.

Suhasini One of my favorite stories from the earlier ICN days written by Lakshmi Seetha. I sincerely hope that she comes back to writing.

A Disciplinarian Mom If there is a queen of writing really sweet and short stories, it is Shruti Sinha. This is one of her best writings.

Nagaveena as a mom Nagaveena had shared many of her adventures where she went out with her kids. The first few stories from her are a good read to know about her motherly experience.

An unexpected mother Radha More explores the subject of how a boy suffering from gynecomastia realizes his desire to become a mother.

Mother’s photocopy/ माँ की फोटोकॉपी Do you have any features that resemble your mom’s? What if you could dress up just like your mother? A short story written by me.

Mother’s look alike We all dream about looking just like our mom. Prerna Desai explores this in a short caption.

The Other Mom/ दूसरी माँ A short caption by Shruti Sinha.

Switch Sometimes, we take things for granted and we don’t realize what a woman does in our life to make our house a home. Being a mother is a whole another challenge.

I am free Radha More explores the birth of motherly feelings inside a man in another story of hers.

Mother’s Day / मदर्स डे What will you do for your mom on mother’s day? A short caption by Shruti Sinha.

Everyone has a story

हिंदी में पढ़े

Hi ladies, once again it is time for my monologue as the editor of ICN. I hope at least some of you have the patience to read this and share your thoughts with us.

As you all know it first hand, the crossdresser life is exciting and full of adrenaline rushing moments just like a roller-coaster ride. Be it the thrilling moment when you are ready to step outside of your home dressed-up, or the rush you feel when you try to dress-up and clean-up when you get a few precious moments to live your dreams before someone comes back to invade your privacy.

Just like our real lives, the crossdressing fiction is like a bouquet filled with flowers of varying colours. In most such stories, we see really imaginative plots where the protagonist finds himself in a situation where he needs to dress up and embrace the femininity within him. I can honestly say that no genre of fiction writing can beat the crossdressing fiction when it comes to fantasies and imagination. In fact, crossdressing fiction covers the whole range – emotions, romance, sensual, sci-fi and crime-thrillers too. 

But why am I talking about all these things? At some point, you might have guessed from the name of our website ‘Indian Crossdressing Novel’, it was meant to be a blog hosting just one novel, nothing more than that. But I was blessed to have been joined by 55+ writers, dozens of picture contributors, and tens of other readers who took part in our various writing challenges. So, ICN became the place where you can dive deep into the world of fantasy, where you can live your dreams and read your own feelings captured in those stories.

Everyone has a story

However, I understand that you not only want to read but also want to speak out and share what’s in your heart – and find comfort among the group of like-minded sisters and girlfriends just like you. That’s why, we started ICN Extension where you can express yourself freely, anonymously – without any restrictions. I am extremely thankful to Prerna Desai who  had been working diligently behind the scenes to publish the stories you submit each day so that your stories are online as soon as possible.

Till date, ICN Extension has already received submissions from 20+ readers/writers leading to 75+ posts published in less than a month. And I am just amazed by the variety of content submitted by all.

Some of the stories are really written beautifully that share the dreams of being able to cross-dress with someone you can trust (Read stories by Pankhuri). Some of the stories may not have the perfect language but are really imaginative and have descriptive plots (Stories by Samantha and Alisha). Some captions express the deep desires and dreams in imaginative scenarios (Read captions by Reshmi and Prerna). Some of the captions by Reshmi are really crisp and to the point that everyone can identify with (see [1],[2]). 

And then, there are stories that are neither perfect nor descriptive but have abrupt ideas that seem too crazy – these are the incoherent stories where you can clearly see the woman talking who had been suppressed for too long – these are the stories where the woman is trying to break free and shout out but she isn’t able to find the right words.

The point is – you may not have the perfect words, your ideas may seem crazy and jumbled up – but don’t worry. Let the woman within you speak up from the darkest corners of your heart – share what you want to share with this world – and then, leave that darkness behind and come to the light of hope where you will find sisters like you supporting you on this platform.

Everyone has a story. Don’t be afraid to share yours.

What can you do next? Come and join our sisters on ICN Extension. Share your own story and free yourself. Support your sisters who have shared their stories by commenting, encouraging or by providing a feedback rating. There is a story for everyone waiting to be read – if you can’t find one, you can submit one.

If you are still not ready, join the anonymous Live Chat forum on our website where you will find friends just like you chatting and expressing themselves every single day – forming new bonds each day. Maybe you will find a friend for yourself too.

Anupama

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	The Desire Jul 28 ▪ STORY Stuti Mathur ▪ READER’S CORNER A new student Astitwa joins college where he finds himself in a problem when his fascination for long hair upsets his senior Janaki.
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	★ Christmas and Sankranti Jul 20 ▪ STORY Nagaveena Rao Is it going to be easy for Nagaveena to comes out to her parents?
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	Marriage Counselling Jul 13 English ▪ हिन्दी ▪ My FM Comic
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	Son and Mom / बेटा और माँ Mar 24 ▪ MyFM Caption
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	★ Helping the needy Mar 6-21 ▪ STORY ▪ Chapters 12 – 15 Anaya Chandra ▪ READER’S CORNER He was ready to leave for another country to chase his dreams of going abroad to work. But a knock on his door changed his plans. A story of love and escape from the goons.
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	Femina Magazine Mar 8 Restarting our sister blog for a more frequent updates.
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	★ Hello, Girlfriend! Feb 15-19 ▪ STORY ▪ All Chapters (1-7) Alisha ▪ READER’S CORNER It was raining heavily when Alok arrived at his sister-in-law’s (bhabhi) home. As luck had it, he didn’t have any suitable clothes to wear that led him to wear something that his bhabhi gave him.
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	★ Helping the needy Feb 5 – 28 ▪ STORY ▪ Chapters 7 – 11 Anaya Chandra ▪ READER’S CORNER He was ready to leave for another country to chase his dreams of going abroad to work. But a knock on his door changed his plans. A story of love and escape from the goons.
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	नए साल की पिकनिक Jan 30 ▪ MICRO STORY रजनी ▪ पाठिका की कलम से क्रिसमस और नए साल की छुट्टी के कारण मेरी मॉम को थोड़ी दिनों की छुट्टी एक साथ मिल गई थी। साल भर से घर में बैठे बैठे हम लोग उनसे कहीं बाहर ले जाने की डिमांड कर रहे थे।
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	I was a handsome boy Jan 28 ▪ STORY Sunitapink A small mistake while filling up an admission form for the board examinations resulted in a boy getting identified as a girl. One thing led to another, and he could never go back
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📌 The following list contains selected stories published on our platform ICN Extension. For the latest list, please visit ICN Extension. 📌 Please submit your stories for publication by email. Learn more here.

2022

06. Nagaveena’s Story Writer : Nagaveena Rao. Short Story, English.

05. From Strangers to Partners Writer : Aurin Priya. Long Story, English.

04. Bhabhi’s Pretty Doll Writer : Alisha. Long Story, English.

03. My Wife’s Model Writer : Alisha. Long Story, English.

02. Fresher’s Day Writer : Pankhuri Bhatia. Short Story, English.

01. The Game Writer : Pankhuri Bhatia. Short Story, English.

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