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By Pallav Bonerjee
Parents must ensure their children remain in touch with the real world – Pallav Bonerjee continues his series of personal narratives on psychology, people and destiny The word ‘childhood’ triggers...
By Sukhdeep Singh
Sukhdeep Singh photo-documents the 'KinkPin Presents Queer Carnival' held in Delhi, November 13, 2016
By Pawan Dhall
Spring cleaning in any season can lead to some invaluable finds tucked away in forgotten corners. The handout below – well, excerpts from a handout – is the result of...
By Debjyoti Ghosh
Debjyoti Ghosh on the World Health Organisation’s plans to delist transgender identity as a mental disorder
By Aakash
It was a rainy evening in Delhi – the drizzle increased the slight chill of the early October air. My mind, after the daylong torture of multiple meetings, difficult conversations,...
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...
By Rajib Chakrabarti
The poet uses Gogyohshi, a form of Japanese micropoetry, to express what he felt when he heard a man ridicule filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh soon after his demise in life and...
By Pawan Dhall
Come autumn and they say love is in the air. Or is it in memories and thoughts triggered by scenes in another time, another place?
By Mark Heywood, Kaushik Gupta
Irrespective of context, Mark Heywood’s article Activism and Civil Society: What it is and What it’s Not will serve as a good ‘refresher’ for activists of all hues.
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...
By Pallav Bonerjee, Subhojit Banerjea
There used to be a time when I wondered what it would be like to reside in a mental health hospital for a while.
By Pawan Dhall, Vahista Dastoor
Hasn’t the subject of gender and sexuality been done to death? Isn’t it all over the media in ever more tantalizing formats?
By Avinaba Dutta, Hari Chettri
The 70th Independence Day could have had new meaning for queer people in India, but for India’s abstention on a recent UNHRC resolution to protect the rights of queer people....
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...
By Shampa Sengupta
Shampa Sengupta answers a reader query on dos and don'ts in helping people with disabilities