LGBT 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 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 ArticleIndia’s linguistic imperialism: Tamil Nadu resents central imposition of...
News Comments // There is a popular saying in Tamil Nadu which approximately says not to waste their time on unproductive things like an idling person having found no employment or work to be busy...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Country Profiles: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
The following are excerpts from the Human Rights Watch 2017 World Report that relate to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. The report, released in January...
View ArticleFreebie furore! And thereby hangs a tale
Otherwise bitter political rivals, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) undoubtedly agree on one point: both believe their extravagant electoral...
View ArticleFull budget from a CM after 15 years
When O. Panneerselvam raises to deliver the budget address in the Assembly on Wednesday next, he will be the first Chief Minister to submit a full-fledged budget after a gap of 15 years. On March 24,...
View ArticleList of candidates belonging to DMK and AIADMK fronts
The following is the list of candidates of the fronts led by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: Tiruvallur District: A.Manimegalai (DMK) and Pon. Raja...
View ArticleLalitha Kala Akademi to hold culture fest for transgender community
KOCHI: Pressing ahead with its programmes to initiate an inclusive contemporary cultural discourse with focus on building resistance to emerging fascist tendencies, the Kerala Lalitha Kala Akademi is...
View ArticleSchemes for transgenders benefit too few
It was with much fanfare that the State announced a special policy for transgenders in the budget this year, but some of the schemes introduced much earlier for their welfare seem to be benefitting too...
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 ArticleCock au vin: how to cook stag penis soup, a niche Chinese delicacy
Entertainment / Food & Drink Cock au vin: how to cook stag penis soup, a niche Chinese delicacy Tweet Pin It By Fuchsia Dunlop Photos by Sophie Gerrard 28 January 15 Welcome to the ultimate private...
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 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 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 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 ArticleFifty-fifty: Half a century of Dravidian rule
After delivering a lecture on the state of the transgender community at a Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association function recently, transgender activist Priya Babu was faced with a...
View ArticleKerala to host first sports meet exclusively for transgender athletes
Kerala will hold an exclusive day-long transgender athletic meet, a first in the country, at the central stadium in the state capital on April 28. The event reflects the state’s policy to stop the...
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