Tagged Under: Vartanama

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  Vartanama Dec '21

  Hope . . . and doubt . . . spring eternal

  By Pawan Dhall

  A year-end piece on pain and rejuvenation, hope and uncertainty by Pawan Dhall

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  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

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  Vartanama Oct '21

  Mistreatment of people living with HIV still happens in government facilities

  By Pawan Dhall

  Universal healthcare access in India – can this dream become a reality without ensuring patient dignity?

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  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

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  From the Archives, Vartanama Aug '21

  Letters as building blocks of India’s queer movements

  By Pawan Dhall

  Pawan Dhall presents nuggets of queer histories from the erstwhile Counsel Club’s archival material

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  Clickhappy!, Vartanama Jul '21

  All things eight

  By Pawan Dhall

  Snapshots of eights around us, as ‘Varta’ webzine completes eight years on August 1, 2021

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  Vartanama Jun '21

  Mentoring the queer case for economic inclusion

  By Varta Economic Inclusion Mentoring Forum

  Varta’s economic inclusion mentoring forum for queer communities takes off

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  Insight, Vartanama May '21

  Homecoming during a pandemic

  By Pawan Dhall

  Pawan Dhall shares life-changing moments from the COVID-19 pandemic. Trigger warning // Hospital descriptions, death

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  Vartanama Apr '21

  Against gratitude

  By Sayan Bhattacharya

  Sayan Bhattacharya questions the normalization of inequity all around us – something we must not give up on if humanity has to continue breathing

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  Coronavirus Diary, Insight, Vartanama Mar '21

  ‘Bengal Trans* & Queer Charter of Demands’ released

  By Chand

  West Bengal’s trans* and queer communities are formulating a policy and political participation advocacy plan. Chand takes us through the first step taken recently

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  Coronavirus Diary, Vartanama Feb '21

  The gender of education, inclusion and exclusion

  By Pawan Dhall, Shivalal Gautam, Sudipa Chakraborty

  Pawan Dhall has some random thoughts on education, gender bias and socio-economic exclusion – with inputs from Shivalal Gautam and Sudipa Chakraborty. Trigger alert: Suicide

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  Vartanama Jan '21

  Childhood ‘mudir dokan’ revisited

  By Pawan Dhall

  Yester-year stores for purchasing foodstuff and monthly provisions are making a comeback in the author’s retail therapy agenda

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  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

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  Vartanama Nov '20

  From ‘being criminal and doing social work’ to ‘doing social work and becoming criminal’

  By Pawan Dhall

  This headline may seem perplexing. So is the central government’s plan to improve the quality of professional social work in India

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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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  Vartanama Sep '20

  Nostalgic transference

  By Pawan Dhall

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