Insight, Manipur Diary Jul '18
Trans inclusive public sanitation in Manipur needs a bigger push
By Bonita Pebam
Bonita Pebam on where the transgender inclusive public sanitation efforts have reached in Manipur
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- 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
- Insight May '18
To school, with fear . . . of confessions!
By Jia Mata, Sudha Jha, Nikita Kabra
Jia Mata, Nikita Kabra and Sudha Jha report on the recent homophobic violation of child rights in the Kamala Girls' High School incident involving the school's headmistress and the West...
- Clickhappy!, Insight Mar '18
Queer cheer at rainbow carnival in Kolkata
By Nazia Khan
Nazia Khan was busy shooting moods and moments at the recent ‘Kolkata Rainbow Carnival 2018’. The fair was organized by the West Bengal Forum for Gender and Sexual Minority Rights...
- Insight Feb '18
Why is there still biphobia within the queer community?
By Shruti Janardhan
Gay men and lesbians need to question their own biphobia even as they fight compulsory heterosexuality argues Shruti Janardhan
- Insight Jan '18
Blogging 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
- Insight Dec '17
Pushback against wrongs in Bill on transgender rights
By Sayantan Datta
The campaign against the regressive Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016 is not just an unprecedented mobilization of trans communities to resist the exclusionary nature of our legal system,...
- Cinemascope, Insight Nov '17
Cinema, commerce and causes
By Nitin Karani
Campaigns to highlight different human rights issues are just past, ongoing or round the corner. Last year saw a spate of Bollywood films on many of these issues. How true...
- Insight Oct '17
Universal 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...
- Insight Sep '17
Universal 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...
- Insight Aug '17
Dazzled, and hopeful – the notion of privacy for all Indians
By Vivek Divan
Vivek Divan on the commitment and flourish shown by the Honourable Supreme Court of India in rescuing the right to privacy from oblivion Remarkable events occurred in the Supreme Court...
- Insight, Policy Matters Jul '17
On sex work – questions, answers, more questions
By Pompi Banerjee, Siddhartha Sankar
Sex work or prostitution – what’s the difference? Decriminalization or legalization of sex work – same thing, right? Human trafficking and sex work (or prostitution) – is it at all...
- Insight, Policy Matters Jun '17
Sex talk for people with psychosocial disabilities
By Shampa Sengupta
Shampa Sengupta, founder of Sruti Disability Rights Centre, argues that the sexual needs of persons with psychosocial disabilities must be addressed, and that there can be no one-size-fits-all approach to...
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Voice of reason with Kolkata connect in UK polls
By Pawan Dhall
Comparative literature studies to researching and teaching gender, sexuality and digital media; Kolkata to London; and now a step into the UK general elections arena on a Labour Party ticket...
- Insight, Policy Matters Apr '17
New mental health law: Act of dignity?
By Pallav Bonerjee
Pallav Bonerjee assesses India’s brand new mental health legislation, the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017. The spring of 2017 brought along with it much needed relief and cause for celebration for...
- Insight, Policy Matters Mar '17
Act up call for hospitals on trans health rights
By Diksha Sanyal, Shubhrajit Roy
Diksha Sanyal makes a strong case for judicial intervention to ensure health facilities honour apex court verdict on transgender rights An occurrence in the Chinsurah District Hospital in West Bengal on January...
