PRIDE of place
There is dance, music, speeches, fashion shows, screenings of documentaries and short films and an exhibition of photographs. The excitement is palpable as Manaveeyam Veedhi gets set to host the first...
View ArticleTamil Nadu election: 19 more caste outfits pledge support to DMK
CHENNAI: Representatives of nine dalit groups and ten other outfits pledged their support to DMK on Tuesday, in the presence of party treasurer M K Stalin and senior leaders like R S...
View Article‘Coimbatore South AIADMK candidate suppressed information’
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate ‘Amman’ K. Arjunan’s nomination to contest the Coimbatore South Assembly seat should be rejected as he suppressed information in the affidavit,...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about being gay in Muslim countries
The official fiction, Brian Whitaker explains, is that gay people don’t exist in the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, the attitudes of family and society are a much bigger problem than the...
View ArticleTranscending gender barrier
She belies the image of a hijra. There’s no make-up, no gaudy dressing and no exaggerated mannerisms. In a simple cotton green kurta and a handbag slung from her shoulder, Revathi is your regular...
View ArticlePadmini Prakash: India's first transgender news anchor
Padmini Prakash has become India's first transgender to anchor a daily television news show and she has been grabbing attention in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Since 15 August - India's...
View ArticleIndia abstains from UN vote on LGBT rights watchdog; activists slam PM Modi's...
-->"India not supporting it in UN shows you are homophobic and a biphobic," said transgender activist Akkai Padmashali. Expressing disappointment over India's move to abstain from voting in the UN...
View ArticleAsian Persuasians
Western culture isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Comparative studies of Judeo-Christian versus Eastern religions and philosophies reveal much greater depth and breadth in some areas of...
View ArticleFinally, our voices are being heard in God's Own Country
I am gay, I am lesbian, I am transgender, I am intersex..." screamed the members of the LGBT community as they moved through the streets of Kozhikode. People crowded around them, some curious, others...
View ArticleNot My Rights Movement
Currently, LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA is believed to be the world’s longest acronym used to describe human sexual orientations and gender identities. Chances are it’s already been surpassed by an even longer...
View ArticleTransgenders pour heart out in first album for equal rights
NEW DELHI: Music is a universal leveller. And, in a first of sorts, nine transgenders hope to achieve that with their first album—Songs of the Caravan—launched in the capital on Saturday by CPI MP...
View ArticleSwami Ayyappan: 1975
The first film on a temple in Kerala was made in Tamil, K. Subramaniam’s Ananthasayanam (1942) that told the story of Lord Padmanabha, the presiding deity of the famous Padmanabhaswami Temple, in the...
View Article85 candidates in the fray from Thoothukudi
A total of 85 candidates are in the fray in the six Assembly constituencies, District Election officer M. Ravikumar said here on Monday after releasing the list of candidates. In Thoothukudi...
View ArticleBreaking free
“Recognition of transgenders as a third gender is not a social or medical issue but a human rights issue,” declared Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan in April 2014 when the Indian Supreme Court recognised...
View ArticleRight is might
We all know of their stories of pain, loss and struggles, but that they also rise above all of it, is not a usual narrative for the society. With Akkai Padmashali receiving the State Rajyotsava Award —...
View ArticleTV programme listings (04/07/2014)
Timings Programmes CHILDREN Cartoon Network 07-00, 22-00 Johnny Test 08-00 Ben 10 09-00 Tom & Jerry Kids Show 10-00, 20-30 Roll No 21 11-00, 13-00, 17-30 Oggy And The Cockroaches 12-30, 20-00...
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 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 ArticleTamil Nadu state’s political religion of Dravidianism
Why was Jayalalithaa, like several of the state’s chief ministers, buried, not cremated, and what is Dravidianism? A look at the political religion of Tamil Nadu, who follows it, and why it died. When...
View Article“I Want to Live With My Head Held High”
Summary In recent years the government of Bangladesh has taken important steps toward acknowledging and protecting hijras, but the implementation of promising decrees and programs has exposed hijras to...
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