Census officers will be seeking specific information based on 31 questions from every household during the house listing and housing census exercise scheduled from April 1 to September 30. In a first, the government looks set to collect data on […]
Revathi, whose mono-act play ‘Vella Mozhi’ will be staged as part of the Thirunar Vizha Rainbow Festival segment of Chennai Kalai Theru Vizha on January 18, talks about how art can convey many things to people about a world alien […]
In the first such initiative, the Government will collect data on households headed by a transgender and members living in the family. Census officers will be seeking specific information based on 31 questions from every household during the houselisting and […]
The name QAMRA is an acronym for Queer Archive for Memory Reflection and Activism but it is also meant to invoke other meanings. As a queer person living in India today, I’m expected to believe that this is a time […]
More than 5,500 people have endorsed an online petition with a request to Chief Ministers of all states to reject National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which the Centre plans to update across the country. […]
Reports that came out while the latest Rajinikanth-starrer Darbar was under production that it included a song composed by the talented Spicy Girls of Hyderabad, a trio of transgender women who would also be part of the movie, piqued audience […]
PUNE: A 22-year-old transgender, arrested on Saturday for robbing a student’s gold ring worth Rs50,000 on Senapati Bapat Road, admitted to robbing Rs5,000 from another person at the same spot earlier on January 4. The robbery happened around 9am at […]
There are a hundred reasons why novelist Bernardine Evaristo’s book Girl, Woman, Other should have won the 2019 Man Booker Prize and, equally, there are a hundred reasons why it should not have. Since it did, though — sharing the […]
In the inclusivity renaissance of workplaces, Indian companies are creating job opportunities and amending and adopting policies to make their workplace LGBTQI+ friendly In September 2018, a few days after the historic decriminalisation of Section 377 of the Indian Penal […]
The Social Justice Ministry issued a notification on January 10, 2019, notifying the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, which was passed by Parliament on November 26 and given Presidential assent on December 5, 2019. The Act aims to […]
