By Jia Mata
Jia Mata was at Varta’s 5th birthday event focussed on queer perspectives on mental health Kolkata, August 4, 2018: “With only 3,827 government and private sector psychiatrists registered with the government in India...
By Bonita Pebam
Bonita Pebam on where the transgender inclusive public sanitation efforts have reached in Manipur
By Pawan Dhall
Anurag Maitrayee tells Pawan Dhall about LGBT Online, YouTube’s first Bengali talk show from India on queer issues The online world now has a new forum for queer conversations in Bengali....
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...
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...
By Shruti Janardhan
Gay men and lesbians need to question their own biphobia even as they fight compulsory heterosexuality argues Shruti Janardhan This article was originally published on Feminism in India and re-published here with...
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
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,...
By Nitin Karani
Campaigns and dates to highlight different human rights issues are just past, ongoing or round the corner. Last year saw a spate of Bollywood films with leading actors that portrayed...
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...