Interview
Interview: Pinki Pramanik
संपादक की ओर से – पिंकी प्रमानिक एक भारतीय ट्रैक एथेलीट हैं जो ४०० मीटर एवं ८०० मीटर दौड़ में…
By Anisha Dutt
September 20, 2014
INTERVIEW: PAWAN DHALL ON HIS OWN JOURNEY OF BUILDING COMMUNITIES – PART 2
Shikha Aleya: What are some of the biggest barriers you have faced in your efforts to create dialogue and visibilise…
By Shikha Aleya
Interview: Pawan Dhall on his own journey of building communities – Part 1
In this issue of In Plainspeak, we interview Pawan Dhall, Founding Trustee of Varta Trust, queer activist, writer and social researcher. He is also the editor of the Varta webzine, promoting and sustaining dialogue on gender and sexuality, across diverse groups of people. As Pawan says, “We are all strung together on a spectrum of gender and sexuality, and we don’t have to be fixed at a single point on the spectrum throughout our lives.”
By Shikha Aleya
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part II
In a two-part interview with TARSHI, Paromita Vohra tells it to us as only she can: frank, articulate and free of male cow poop!
By TARSHI Team
August 14, 2018
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I
In a two-part interview with TARSHI, Paromita Vohra tells it to us as only she can: frank, articulate and free of male cow poop!
By TARSHI Team
August 1, 2018
Interview: Paromita Vohra – Part I
In an interview with TARSHI, Paromita Vohra tells it to us as only she can: frank, articulate and free of male cow poop!
By TARSHI Team
January 2, 2019
Interview: Nidhi Goyal
Nidhi Goyal is a gender and disability rights activist from Mumbai, India. Anisha Dutt: Your journey as a disability and gender rights activist…
By Anisha Dutt
June 1, 2015
Interview: Nandini Rao
Feminist, activist, writer, counsellor and trainer, Nandini Rao, focuses on issues of gender-based violence and discrimination, sexuality and disability and on incest and child sexual abuse.
By Shikha Aleya
May 1, 2018
Interview: Namita Aavriti
Namita Aavriti, writer, lawyer, feminist, and coordinator and editor for GenderIT.org, focuses on issues related to gender, ICT and internet rights. Namita is also the co-curator and organiser of the Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF).
By TARSHI
July 1, 2019
Interview: Maya Sharma on People’s Movements in India – II
Vikalp aims to join people, form groups at the ground level. When people talk to one another, they will also learn from one another. It is then that advocacy and campaigning can make a real difference – when people from the local communities take up their own cause.
By Anjora Sarangi
December 16, 2016
Interview: Maya Sharma on People’s Movements in India – 1
Maya Sharma is a feminist and activist who has been passionately involved in the Indian women’s movement. She has co-written Women’s Labour Rights, a book on single women’s lives. She is currently working with Vikalp Women’s Group, a grassroots organization in Baroda, Gujarat, that works with tribal women and transgender people.
TARSHI volunteer Anjora Sarangi interviews Maya about her experiences with and observations about various people’s movements in India.
By Anjora Sarangi
December 5, 2016
Interview: Maya Sharma
In this interview with Shikha Aleya, Maya speaks with a deep knowledge of ground realities about the increasing informalisation of labour and its implications for gender and sexuality, and about what labour rights and inclusion mean in real terms.
By Shikha Aleya
October 4, 2021
March 1, 2014
Interview: Marevic ‘Bing’ Parcon on Activism and the Development Agenda
Marevic Parcon or Bing, as she is known, is the Asia Programme Officer for the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive…
By Shweta Krishnan
September 15, 2015
Interview: Manjula Pradeep
Manjula Pradeep is a lawyer and former Executive Director of the Navsarjan Trust, a grassroots organisation working to empower Dalits…
By Sonia Dhawan
October 3, 2017