The book, Desi Queers, also examines the role of queer artists in the UK who have roots in the Indian subcontinent — from filmmakers like Hanif Kureishi to visual artists Sunil Gupta and Pratibha Parmar.
Bengaluru queer festival Maya Bazaar featured a panel discussion on inclusion in corporate spaces. Companies are reluctant to move beyond performative gestures, panellists said.
The film’s intention of highlighting sexual assault against men does not come from an honest place. It is laced with homophobia and insensitivity throughout.
SC considering broadening scope of Gender Sensitization & Internal Complaints Committee. Changes come after lawyer Rohin Bhatt wrote to CJI to end 'discrimination against queer community'.
While South Korea does not legally recognise same-sex marriage, the court's verdict is the 'first recognition of the legal status of a same-sex couple', the plaintiff's lawyer said.
Mumbai’s Color Positive Foundation is holding its first pride march on 28 January. But other top LGBTQI+ organisations like Humsafar Trust and Azaadi Mumbai have kept a distance.
The panel at the launch of book Queer Sapien had Supreme Court lawyer Saurabh Kirpal. He talked about lengthy judgments, which are never translated in India languages.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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