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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicIndia LGBTQ community

Topic: India LGBTQ community

Tax terror and India’s same-sex couples

Even without entering the debate on marriage equality, India’s laws are already punishing same-sex couples in small and large ways that are rarely discussed.

Drains to dating apps—Dalit queer booklet maps Delhi’s unspoken caste geography

‘Across the Nala’, a collaborative effort between Project Mukti, Unsound Project, and the Urban Studies Foundation, was launched at the Centre for Justice, OP Jindal Global University.

India’s queer politics isn’t about Right vs Left. It’s a matter of privilege

If Right-wing gays and transpersons are a walking contradiction for those on the Left, the latter are far too militant for those on the Right.

Yes, you can be queer and Muslim. But it’s hard to say what a ‘Muslim’ is

Edited by Kazim Ali, ‘On the Brink of Belief’ gathers 24 voices from the Indian subcontinent to explore queerness and faith.

Is there an Indian way to be gay? Most of us learn about queerness from American TV

We’re sad about drag bans in the US, but don’t care about horizontal reservations in India. Stonewall remains our frame of reference, and AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan is unheard of.

Indian gay men idolise three kinds of women. They’re all missing from this era of Bollywood

It’s no secret: gay men love women. Their lives are deeper, their conversation more honest, their heartbreak familiar.

Grindr is dying. The final nail in the coffin is ads

I remember counting the profiles in my town and feeling a sense of relief—there were more like me out there. Grindr was a brutal place, but it offered freedom.

Parents think we turn kids gay, says Anjali Gopalan after winning Franco-German award

Naz Foundation founder Anjali Gopalan received the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law this week. She is the first Indian to win the award.

Lawyers can’t lead the queer movement. Involve grassroots activists, community organisers

In 'The Urban Elite v. Union of India', queer lawyer Rohin Bhatt offers an insider's view of the marriage equality hearings.

Gyms are unsafe for gay men like me. Jeers, stares, and treadmill trauma

I don't want a hulking body; I want to be lean so I can wear a crop top. But my idea of fitness doesn’t match theirs.

On Camera

How Gen-Z is changing the violent extremist landscape online

The evolving extremist threat now hinges on young people online, demanding new strategies beyond traditional counter-terror models.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.