Indian Transgender Community
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India’s trans people are surviving the pandemic through mutual aid and solidarity
At a time when food and socio-economic insecurities started claiming lives, community-based organisations effectively organised to keep each other alive.
Sohini Chatterjee, The Conversation
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Meet India's first transman to become a bodybuilding champion
The Delhi resident, a lawyer, came second in the Men’s Physique category at Musclemania India.
Soumya Rao
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Community, tradition and struggle: Inside India’s first government-funded transgender poetry meet
The Sahitya Akademi hosted readings by transgender poets in Kolkata in an event chaired by writer and activist Manabi Bandopadhyay.
Upasana Agarwal
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Constitution does not allow preferential treatment for religious majority: SC judge BV Nagarathna
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‘Zara Hatke Zara Bachke’ review: Duck-and-dive comedy is a hit-and-miss affair
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Interview: India’s exaggerated value and the danger of S Jaishankar’s ‘new world order’ posturing
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Who was the photographer who took these dehumanising images of the Madras famine?
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Political leaders in Nepal object to ‘Akhand Bharat’ mural in new Parliament
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In a first, transsexual couple get married in Kerala
The wedding took place in Thiruvananthapuram and was attended by several activists and politicians.
Scroll Staff
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Kerala’s first transgender beauty contest was a success – but will it lead to greater victories?
The state has been paving the way for transgender rights since 2014.
TA Ameerudheen
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Why an 80-year-old Indian transgender person chooses a home in a graveyard over ‘normal’ life
Despite some progress in recognising the rights of the third gender in the country, Mona Ahmed finds the mainstream lonely.
Matthew Ponsford
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Watch: How DRI, Coast Guard officers recovered over 32 kg gold from under the sea in Tamil Nadu
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Watch: Rare all-white panda caught on camera at nature reserve in Sichuan, China
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Watch: Actor Parineeti Chopra sings the song ‘Tu Jhoom’ while in a dubbing studio
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Watch: French carpenter makes fully functional wooden car modelled after a Citroën
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The Aravani Art Project: Using street art to empower the transgender community
'The public thinks we only beg and do sex-work.'
Rohini Kejriwal
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Merely celebrating the exceptional achievements of trans-people conceals their struggle
In 2016, trans-visibility was high, but so were trans-deaths and police brutality.
Shreya Ila Anasuya