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...
Tagged Under: Human Rights
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My Story Feb '18Match-making between dating and disabilities
By Ishan Chakraborty, Prosenjit Pal
Ishan Chakraborty narrates his experience of attending an innovative meet-up in Kolkata that aimed to help people with disabilities find friends and dates
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Insight Jan '18Blogging 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
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Policy Matters Jan '18Bill against instant triple ‘talaq’: Lose-lose proposition?
By Shampa Sengupta
Shampa Sengupta explains why criminalizing instant triple 'talaq' will not protect Muslim women’s rights
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Vartanama Dec '17Toilets: 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.
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Insight Dec '17Pushback 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,...
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Happenings Dec '17In rage, and in hope, we fight
By Ajita Banerjie
Delhi witnesses a collective voice of dissent against the central government’s Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016. Ajita Banerjie reports
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Happenings Dec '17‘Transgender Day of Rage’ to mark Kolkata pride
By Kolkata Rainbow Pride Festival, Siddhartha Sankar
The 16th edition of the ‘Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk’ is planned for December 10, 2017. The walk will be preceded by a protest against the discriminatory Transgender Person (Protection of...
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Vartanama Nov '17Down, 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...
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Policy Matters Nov '17Government letdown on transgender and intersex rights legislation
By Sampoorna India, Kaushik Gupta
In a stunning reversal, the Government of India has ignored all civil society inputs and plans to table a much criticized version of a Bill on transgender and intersex rights...
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Advice - Rights and Laws Nov '17PIL in Calcutta High Court to push for transgender rights
By Debayan N. Sen
Debayan N. Sen explains the purpose of a recent petition filed in the Calcutta High Court to address the livelihood concerns of transgender people
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Happenings Nov '17Voicing out stasis in transgender lives
By Pawan Dhall
A trans* community hearing organized last week in Kolkata captured numerous grievances and complaints of government inaction across West Bengal. Pawan Dhall reports
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Insight Oct '17Universal 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...
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Happenings Oct '17Queer inclusion: Business not as usual
By Pawan Dhall
The business world in India has an opportunity to adopt a benchmark to prevent discrimination against queer people in the workplace and beyond. Pawan Dhall reports on the launch of...
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Vartanama Sep '17What 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.
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Insight Sep '17Universal 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...