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  • Poetry

  Nov '20

  Unreliable witness

  By Anureet Watta

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  • From the Archives
  • Vartanama

  Oct '20

  Durga Puja in the archives

  By Pawan Dhall

  Pawan Dhall looks at Durga Puja nuggets in the Counsel Club Archives and his personal photo albums

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  • Coronavirus Diary
  • Insight

  Oct '20

  Lockdown takeaways: Achieving higher ground

  By Shivalal Gautam

  In this second paired narrative of queer lives during the lockdown in Assam, Shivalal Gautam tells us how two queer women negotiated multiple trials and reached a better place in...

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  • Coronavirus Diary
  • People

  Oct '20

  A lesser known lockdown reality

  By Sudipa Chakraborty

  Sudipa Chakraborty narrates the story of a gigolo in Kolkata – before and during the coronavirus lockdown

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  • Coronavirus Diary
  • People

  Oct '20

  Right to have sex in one’s bedroom not be-all and end-all of LGBTIQA+ rights

  By Pradosh Dash

  Pradosh Dash chats with political science student Sanjit Mondal who survived a recent queerphobic attack by the Bidhannagar City Police and turned adversity into opportunity

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  • Vartanama

  Sep '20

  Nostalgic transference

  By Pawan Dhall

  Pawan Dhall on trips to parallel universes through archives and remembrances around them