Insight Jun '18
Queer and Bengali on YouTube
By Pawan Dhall
Anurag Maitrayee tells Pawan Dhall about 'LGBT Online', YouTube’s first Bengali talk show from India on queer issues
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Qatha: On the uses of ‘sil-batta’ to make you straight & more queer tales (part 1)
By Pawan Dhall, Soma Roy Karmakar
'Varta' brings you the next series of articles under the ‘Queer Kolkata Oral History Project’
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Vartanama May '18Cinema of questioning the world order
By Pawan Dhall
The summers just got that much more intense with some gripping cinema!
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Vartanama Apr '18When will the tide turn?
By Pawan Dhall
Both photographs in this article were clicked during an event organized on April 18, 2018 by Maitree, a pioneering women’s rights network in West Bengal
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Vartanama Mar '18Little women versus patriarchy – and the winner is . . .
By Pawan Dhall
Morning newspapers are all about marvelling with horror at the survival challenges we as a deeply unequal society throw at our girls and women. And then I marvel some more...
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Vartanama Feb '18Of death wish lists
By Pawan Dhall
Death doesn’t have to be something morbid. Especially if one considers what Rabindranath Tagore said about death being ‘completion’ and not the ‘end’ of life (or so I remember from...
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Insight Jan '18Blogging for economic inclusion – by and for queer people
By Pawan Dhall, Boicha Huidrom
Pawan Dhall and Boicha Huidrom on 'Rainbow Manipur | Inclusive Manipur', an online documentation initiative to advocate for economic inclusion of gender and sexual minorities from grassroots to policy levels
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Vartanama Dec '17Toilets: Inclusive, safe and universally designed
By Pawan Dhall
To pee or not to pee – in a public toilet! Till this day any decision in this regard has sometimes to be taken even before I have left home.
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My Story Dec '17Do you have a ‘queerstory’ to tell?
By Pawan Dhall
Pawan Dhall on a story writing venture that will record the impact of eastern India’s queer movements in the 1990s on people’s lives
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Vartanama Nov '17Down, but not out!
By Pawan Dhall
Three of the articles in this issue of 'Varta' talk about the continued hardships faced by transgender and intersex people in India. All jab us in the eye at how far...
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Happenings Nov '17Voicing out stasis in transgender lives
By Pawan Dhall
A trans* community hearing organized last week in Kolkata captured numerous grievances and complaints of government inaction across West Bengal. Pawan Dhall reports
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Vartanama Oct '17Varta@50 says thank you!
By Pawan Dhall, Rudra Kishore Mandal
Fortunate is the editor who gets to compensate the lack of inspiration for his 50th editorial with a thank you note!
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Insight Oct '17Universal design: Your life depends on it (part 2)
By Pawan Dhall, Kaustav Manna
Concluding part of Pawan Dhall’s chat with Mainak Ghosh, Associate Professor, Architecture, Jadavpur University on how universal design relates not just to products and built spaces, but also to our...
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Happenings Oct '17Queer inclusion: Business not as usual
By Pawan Dhall
The business world in India has an opportunity to adopt a benchmark to prevent discrimination against queer people in the workplace and beyond. Pawan Dhall reports on the launch of...
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Vartanama Sep '17What price vigilance?
By Pawan Dhall
A new media acquaintance wondered what the focus of this issue’s editorial would be. He was sure I would write about journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder. Well, he wasn’t wrong.
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Insight Sep '17Universal design: Your life depends on it (part 1)
By Pawan Dhall, Kaustav Manna
Could there be anything more universal than ‘universal design’? Pawan Dhall chats with Mainak Ghosh, who is Associate Professor, Architecture with Jadavpur University, and discovers how it relates not just...
