Indian women shackled by the bonds of family and society are finally finding their own space - in cyberspace. Anonymous blogs are springing up all around and on them, young women are exploring their sexuality and breaking all rules. Hemangini Gupta has the story.

A young, single, urban Indian woman returns home after a day's work. When your family is far away, life is lonely. So what do you do? Flick on your computer, log on to the web, and start blogging.

Bloggerhead is one such anonymous blog maintained by a media-professional from Delhi, and it's here she writes of boys, romance and sex.

This is how Bloggerhead introduces herself: Regularly in blah mode. I am currently in the obsessive-compulsive mode as far as love and longing goes. i used to think i had my head on my shoulders but my shoulders shrug off my big-fat worry-wart head without a backward glance.. so i say blah!

"There's no pressure. I can say whatever I want to without anybody telling me what to do," she says.

Perhaps, its the sense of freedom which the medium provides that has spawned an entire community of women bloggers across India. It is where they can voice their opinion without fear of reprisal or reprimand. They give themselves names like BridalBeer and Desi Chicklit. And they key into their blogs, their innermost desires.

Some of these Indian women bloggers are from joint families, where pre marital sex or even boyfriends are taboo. In cyberspace they can assert an identity that they can't in real life. These frank bloggers are naturally fiercely protective about their real identity so we do an online chat with one of them; the popular blogger BridalBeer.

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