By Shivalal Gautam
In this second paired narrative of queer lives during the lockdown in Assam, Shivalal Gautam tells us how two queer women negotiated multiple trials and reached a better place in...
By Diksha Sanyal
COVID-19 lockdowns may eventually go, but domestic violence against queer persons not quite so. Diksha Sanyal offers some legal solutions
By Mihika Poddar
Mihika Poddar explains a recent court verdict on the right to marry for trans persons
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...
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...
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...