Tagged Under: Privileges

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  • Commentary

  Sep '19

  Attempts at erasing trans cultures in Manipur

  By Santa Khurai

  Santa Khurai on trans women in Manipur being denied their traditional space in the Lai Haraoba festival

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  • Vartanama

  Aug '19

  Comfort of echoes in a chamber

  By Sayan Bhattacharya

  Sayan Bhattacharya points at the inefficacy of queer activisms in India in the face of larger socio-political challenges

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  • Insight
  • VCR Diary

  Jul '19

  Multi-layered exclusions for trans persons in Assam NRC process

  By Shivalal Gautam

  Look at the NRC exercise from trans persons’ points of view, urges Shivalal Gautam

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  • Vartanama

  Jan '19

  ‘Lyadh’!

  By Pawan Dhall

  Vartanama, Jan '19 What better way to avoid a tedious editorial than to write about lyadh? ‘Procrastination’ doesn’t even begin to explain this quintessential Bangali expression – lyadh! Neither does ‘laziness’, though...

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  • Vartanama

  Oct '18

  Far away from the madding crowds?

  By Shampa Sengupta

  Shampa Sengupta stayed away from pandal hopping but had a room with a view this Durga Puja Three separate incidents during Durga Puja this year – all witnessed from my window. All...

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  • Vartanama

  May '18

  Cinema of questioning the world order

  By Pawan Dhall

  The summers just got that much more intense with some gripping cinema! Two very different settings across the breadth of the country, two films on rather different subjects (but I...

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  • Insight

  Feb '18

  Why is there still biphobia within the queer community?

  By Shruti Janardhan

  Gay men and lesbians need to question their own biphobia even as they fight compulsory heterosexuality argues Shruti Janardhan This article was originally published on Feminism in India and re-published here with...

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  • My Story

  Feb '18

  Match-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 Inclov, a match-making app focussing on people...

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  • Travel Travel
  • Vartanama

  Jan '18

  No Eden anywhere?

  By Sayan Bhattacharya

  When I was asked to write the Varta editorial for this month, I was in a fix. How does one write about yet another year ending and another beginning? Should I...

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  • Vartanama

  Dec '17

  Toilets: 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....