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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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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What did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar think about Dalits praying in temples and eating with Brahmins?
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Translated short fiction: A 73-year-old Indian man goes to Bangladesh, his ‘land of birth’, to die
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‘No educated person will vote for the BJP. What is the point of studying if we do not get jobs?’
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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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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming
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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