Tagged Under: Economic Inclusion

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  Happenings, Policy Matters Jan '23

  Judicial fillip to transgender rights once again

  By Pawan Dhall

  Calcutta High Court has given the Government of West Bengal a month to clear the long-pending backlog on transgender identity certification in the state

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  Insight, Vartanama Oct '22

  Trans identities lost in a bureaucratic haze

  By Debjyoti Ghosh

  Why does West Bengal have such a poor rate of transgender identity certification? Debjyoti Ghosh raises pertinent questions

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  Advice - Rights and Laws Oct '22

  Clearing the mist on banking and insurance nomination rules

  By Kaushik Gupta

  Queer individuals in India can designate their partners or friends as nominees and successors for their bank accounts and insurance policies. Kaushik Gupta elaborates

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  Insight, Policy Matters Sep '22

  Challenges in meeting queer community needs during the COVID-19 pandemic

  By Susanta Pramanik, Jia Mata, Pawan Dhall

  Excerpts from an analysis of the role played by community based organizations in working with queer people in India during the COVID-19 crisis and the challenges faced by the organizations

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  Thought for Food Aug '22

  Where ‘adda’ and photography keep the tea pot boiling

  By Jia Mata

  Jia Mata recommends some 'cha', 'chhobi' and 'charcha' at café Zoom Tea-O-Graphy, which is bubbling with possibilities in its third year

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  Thought for Food, Vartanama Jan '22

  Ache – bake – cake

  By Pawan Dhall

  Pawan Dhall shares a sad-happy bake story and plans for a new rising in 2022

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  Disability - Advice, Insight Jan '22

  Is horizontal reservation ensuring jobs efficiently for the disabled?

  By Amrita Chanda

  Amrita Chanda elaborates on the situation of horizontal reservation for persons with disabilities in public sector employment

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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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  Insight, Policy Matters Nov '21

  Is digitization the new bed fellow for anti-queer discrimination?

  By Brindaalakshmi K.

  The author wants to alert queer people in India against an uncritical embracing of digital inclusion

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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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  Insight Aug '21

  In the matter of queer relationships – court approval vs. social disapproval

  By Diksha Sanyal

  What is life like for Indian queer couples who win court approval of their right to cohabit? An analysis by Diksha Sanyal with inputs from Pawan Dhall

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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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  Coronavirus Diary, Insight Jun '21

  Something unfair about job fairs

  By Sudipa Chakraborty

  Job fairs for queer aspirants in India need a rethink, says Sudipa Chakraborty

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  Coronavirus Diary, Policy Matters May '21

  Pandemic impact on a loop?

  By Pradosh Dash

  What has changed for the transgender women in Odisha since the COVID-19 pandemic led to the crippling lockdowns of 2020? Pradosh Dash spoke to S. Lipsa Rao, a transgender community...

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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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  Insight Apr '21

  Farewell, dear fairy!

  By Chintan Girish Modi

  Chintan Girish Modi remembers Gaurav Probir Pramanik whose actions ensured that homophobic behaviour at the leadership level in a leading Indian corporate did not go unpunished