caste
I read The Failed Radical Possibilities of Queerness in India more than a year ago and it still makes me…
Friendship – a place where we can be ourselves as we truly are, with no artifice. A place of peace,…
In our mid-month issue, we have the second part of the Shikha Aleya’s interview with six different people talking about aspects of sexuality and diversity from their own particular space of personal knowledge, as well as work, advocacy, art and activism across diverse fields.
In our mid-month issue, Amit Timilsina writes about the role class plays in the decisions that young people make, and what he himself, as a young person and a youth leader, had to do to gain access to resources and to professional acceptance.
Mental health, much like physical health, is a state of wellbeing and not just the absence of disease or infirmity….
“As a tool of social control, women have been encouraged to recognize only one area of human difference as legitimate,…
When the pressure started to mount on Surekha, from all corners, to get married, she thought of reconsidering Kishore’s proposal…
Choices about life, relationships and desires are all defined based on socio-economic background, caste, class, gender and sexuality. When these young girls found a comfortable and safe space, they openly talked about their desires and experiences and how they negotiated their existing environments in order to pursue their desires.
Those who are rendered vulnerable due to their gender or sexuality, particularly those who are economically and socially disadvantaged (or less powerful) and lack the agency to speak up for themselves, are more prone to allegations, social ostracism and marginalization.
Who gets to imagine this utopian sociality, or future, of the queer movement?
The Ganja-Mahua Chronicles is an art project that draws attention to the role that marriage plays in upholding India’s caste…
By and large, society expects a woman to marry. Often people in one’s circle judge a woman if she doesn’t marry, inquiring about what could be wrong but most never assuming that it could be out of choice
Advancing the most penetrative and succinct theory of caste, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar had this to say in 1916 when…