Tagged Under: Marriage

• 
  Vartanama Apr '23

  All this marriage (equality) talk!

  By Pawan Dhall

  Pawan Dhall has something to say to argumentative Indians who’ve been bickering over who can have the marriage laddu and who can have only the laddu

• 
  Insight, Policy Matters Apr '23

  Marriage equality – petitions, pushback and politics

  By Namrata, Shreyashi

  Namrata and Shreyashi trace the developments in the marriage equality litigation and bring to light issues and claims from queer activists that go beyond marriage equality

• 
  Insight Mar '23

  Re-imagining intimacy, re-configuring kinship: Some notes on friendship

  By Diksha Sanyal

  Diksha Sanyal writes about intimacies and relationships beyond romance in the current Indian context, and invites you to share your thoughts – this is the first in a series of...

• 
  Cinemascope Apr '22

  Queering the marriage story pitch

  By Karthik Hebbar

  Karthik Hebbar reviews 'Gay India Matrimony', a documentary film by Debalina, one of India’s most exciting queer filmmakers

• 
  Insight, Policy Matters Dec '21

  Can increasing women’s marriageable age alone enhance their life options?

  By Sankalpita Mullick, Sudhasri Yadavalli

  Sankalpita Mullick and Sudhasri Yadavalli analyse the controversial Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021

• 
  Coronavirus Diary, Insight, People Oct '20

  Lockdown takeaways: Achieving higher ground

  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...

• 
  Advice - Rights and Laws Sep '20

  Stay home, stay safe?

  By Diksha Sanyal

  COVID-19 lockdowns may eventually go, but domestic violence against queer persons not quite so. Diksha Sanyal offers some legal solutions

• 
  Advice - Rights and Laws 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

• 
  Policy Matters Jan '18

  Bill 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

• 
  Poetry Jan '17

  They 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...

• 
  People Sep '16

  Qatha: 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...