Author: Debjyoti Ghosh | Varta Trust

Debjyoti Ghosh

Debjyoti Ghosh is a human rights lawyer originally from Kolkata, India, and now based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is involved in queer rights activism and has also worked on issues of HIV/AIDS, women and children. His SJD/PhD dissertation focussed on transgender rights in India, Brazil and South Africa, and his primary interest areas are constitutionalism, queer rights, minority rights, and citizenship. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Insight, Vartanama Oct '22

Trans identities lost in a bureaucratic haze

By Debjyoti Ghosh
Why does West Bengal have such a poor rate of transgender identity certification? Debjyoti Ghosh raises pertinent questions
Vartanama Jun '22

Of life and many loves

By Debjyoti Ghosh
Debjyoti Ghosh elaborates on a webinar he moderated on polyamory on June 17, 2022 – with inputs from Arkadeepra Purkayastha
Policy Matters, Vartanama Nov '21

Trans inclusion in schools: A step forward and several backwards

By Debjyoti Ghosh
Debjyoti Ghosh on the politics around withdrawing the draft NCERT manual on transgender children’s inclusion in schools
Policy Matters, Vartanama Sep '21

Skills, jobs and freedoms

By Debjyoti Ghosh
Debjyoti Ghosh reflects on the learning so far from Varta’s fledgling economic inclusion mentoring forum
Happenings, Insight, Policy Matters Feb '21

Transgender rights in South Asia: Trends, crises and opportunities

By Debjyoti Ghosh, Jia Mata, Pawan Dhall
Excerpts from the report of a recent webinar on transgender rights in South Asia organized by Partners for Law in Development and Varta Trust
Vartanama Dec '20

Theme for a dream in 2021

By Debjyoti Ghosh
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown new light on food (in)security for transgender persons, says Debjyoti Ghosh
Cinemascope Jul '20

Living on in death

By Debjyoti Ghosh
Debjyoti Ghosh reviews Leonard Cortana’s short documentary 'Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die'
Vartanama Feb '19

How’s the ‘josh’?

By Debjyoti Ghosh
Debjyoti Ghosh on why we must #SayNoToWar
Insight Sep '18

When the Constitution came out in flaming rainbow colours!

By Debjyoti Ghosh
Debjyoti Ghosh on Section 377 finally being read out of queer lives in India
Insight, Policy Matters Oct '16

Disorder to dysphoria – humanizing the trans citizen?

By Debjyoti Ghosh
Debjyoti Ghosh on the World Health Organisation’s plans to delist transgender identity as a mental disorder