Vartanama Dec '18
Alienation, mindfulness and the New Year
By Pawan Dhall
Some ruminations as 2019 takes off from where 2018 never stopped . . .
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- Vartanama Nov '18
What’s with the pacific calm?
By Pawan Dhall
Post-Section 377 verdict, where’s the impatience to demand more rights, asks Pawan Dhall
- Vartanama Oct '18
Far away from the madding crowds?
By Shampa Sengupta
Shampa Sengupta stayed away from 'pandal' hopping but had a room with a view this Durga Puja
- Vartanama Sep '18
About constitutional love and great expectations
By Pawan Dhall
High fives and hugs yes, but the Section 377 verdict is by no means about closures!
- Vartanama Aug '18
Lending a helping hand
By Pawan Dhall
'Varta' appeals to its readers to contribute as much as they can - every bit counts!
- Vartanama Jul '18
Birthday fervour?
By Pawan Dhall
It’s a momentous occasion for 'Varta' to turn five and also government’s silly season on queer issues
- Vartanama Jun '18
For your well being!
By Pawan Dhall
Varta’s online locator for queer friendly health and legal aid service providers is formally launched!
- Vartanama May '18
Cinema of questioning the world order
By Pawan Dhall
The summers just got that much more intense with some gripping cinema!
- Vartanama Apr '18
When 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
- Vartanama Mar '18
Little 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...
- Vartanama Feb '18
Of 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...
- Travel Travel, Vartanama Jan '18
No Eden anywhere?
By Sayan Bhattacharya
When I was asked to write the 'Varta' editorial for this month, I was in a fix. How does one write about yet another year ending and another beginning?
- Vartanama Dec '17
Toilets: 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.
- Vartanama Nov '17
Down, 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...
- Vartanama Oct '17
Varta@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!
- Vartanama Sep '17
What 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.
