Close Encounters of a Third Gender
At the beginning of the 2015-16 school year, Harvard University announced that students would be able to choose from a list of gender-neutral pronouns such as "ze,""hir" and "hirs." While advocates...
View ArticleLiberty, equality, identity: Giving wings to the transgender community in India
In April last year, the Rajya Sabha passed The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014, heralding the first steps towards equality for the transgender (TG) community. Paving the way for a law, the...
View ArticleFeminism and Trans Women
In the early 21st century, the issue of the relationship of feminism and trans people has developed in several different directions.Gender Gender has come to be used to describe the social identity of...
View ArticleSex Reassignment Surgery
What is sex reassignment surgery?: Sex reassignment surgery (SRS), also known as gender reassignment surgery (GRS), is a means of transitioning to a different gender through surgical alteration of the...
View ArticleComing out, ever so gingerly
In Kerala’s vibrant public sphere, theirs is a surprisingly invisible presence. Fear stalks them wherever they go and their efforts to come out of the closet still remain tentative and fraught with...
View ArticleChaos in Congress, DMK alliance over seat-sharing
Barely within a day after the Congress and the DMK in Tamil Nadu clinching a deal for the forthcoming elections, identifying constituencies seems to have run into rough weather. It is...
View ArticleSarubala joins AIADMK
Former Tiruchi Mayor Sarubala R. Tondaiman who quit the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) last month joined the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Wednesday. Along with Ms. Sarubala,...
View ArticleUse of race in political party's name not objectionable: Election Commission
--> Sat, 17 Sep 2016-08:25pm , New Delhi , PTI A plea filed had sought direction from EC to parties such as Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam as they contain the...
View ArticleDMK poaching MDMK cadre, says Vaiko
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Vaiko has accused Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader M.K. Stalin of poaching his partymen with the promise of ticket for contesting the Assembly...
View ArticleISRO chief among 60 Rajyotsava Award winners
The State government has chosen 60 people for Karnataka Rajyotsava Award, including Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar, cricketer Vinay Kumar, writer Aryambha Pattabhi,...
View ArticleWhen Malayalam found its feet
As rain clouds hover above the horizon and a veil of darkness shrouds the Malayalam month of Karkkidakam, chants of Adhyatma Ramayanam fill most Hindu homes. Karkkidakam is also called ‘Ramayana...
View ArticleCandidates see green shoots in an arid constituency
Scanty rainfall over the past decade, poor irrigation infrastructure, and the long-pending proposal on Cauvery-Gundar rivers inter-linking project are some major issues that have come to the fore in...
View ArticleVaiko hopes DMDK will join hands with PWF
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has been hijacked by the corporate, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Vaiko has alleged. Speaking to reporters here on Wednesday, Mr. Vaiko said...
View ArticleTamil Nadu Elections 2016: Here's a quick look at the key parties, alliances...
--> Alliances have changed and so have equations between party leaders in Tamil Nadu for the upcoming elections. The 2016 Tamil Nadu polls have been touted as a multi-cornered contest with so many...
View ArticleWhere BJP, Congress & their maverick kingpins stand as election fever grips...
Of the four major states going to the polls in a couple of months — West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Kerala — the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) chances are brightest in Assam and bleakest in Tamil...
View ArticleDMK functionary held on charge of murder
A mason was brutally murdered by a political functionary as a dispute arose over illegal intimacy with a woman...
View ArticleLGBT community questions PM Modi’s silence, says govt has ‘fascist mindset’
Member of India’s LGBT (Lesbians Gays Bisexuals Transgenders) community shout slogans during a parade in Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Saturday, June 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)...
View ArticleLGBT community snubs "fascist" Govt., questions PM Modi's silence
Bengaluru (Karnataka), July 1 (ANI): Expressing disappointment over India's move to abstain from voting in the UN Human Rights Council to appoint an independent investigator to help protect the rights...
View Article24 candidates file papers in Kanyakumari district
As many as 24 candidates filed their nomination papers for the six Assembly constituencies in the district on Thursday. All the six All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidates, including former...
View ArticleWhere political history was forged
K. Umapathy was 27 when heard the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Jyoti Basu, address a rally at Mangollai in the city’s Mylapore area in May 1991. A resident of Mylapore’s Warren Road, he used to...
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