Jun '19
Winds of change in marriage law?
By Mihika Poddar
Mihika Poddar explains a recent court verdict on the right to marry for trans persons
Tagged Under: Marriage
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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 On December 28, 2017, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 was passed in the Lok...
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Jan '17They woke up in the minute curves of my vagina
By Aparajita Dutta, Shubhrajit Roy
They woke up in the minute curves of my vagina, scared, flustered, baffled, touches and nightmares bewildering the reality; violation is THE rule, resist the circus, laughed the fool. The...
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Sep '16Qatha: Recalling dark room discoveries and more (part 2)
By Pawan Dhall
Varta brings you the ‘Queer Kolkata Oral History Project’, an initiative to document five decades of queer lives in Kolkata (1960-2000). Our aim in this project is to go back in...