Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed Calcutta University to state by Friday whether it was ready to admit transgender candidates seeking admission to MPhil courses as part of the quota for other ...

You are known as a champion of workplace inclusivity. For anyone who still needs to be convinced, why is it so important?This is something I’ve always been passionate about as an individual, even wh...

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, which runs the capital city of Odisha, has assigned 11 transgender persons to persuade tax defaulters to cough up their dues.The corporation and the collectors a...

I was thinking about writing a piece or article about my experience for many days. But I had been unable to write it because for a person like me, it is not easy to write. I am writing this mostly for...

Society’s values are riddled with contradictions. Since it is an established fact that women — and girls — are at the receiving end of violent sexual abuse and oppression, the institutional focu...

Fifty members of the transgender community collected dry ration on Friday as part of an initiative to help them during the lockdown.The members from across south Calcutta came to Amra Odbhut Cafe â€...

The author is a doctoral researcher in Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University...

A Mighty Chief...

Bullied in school, abandoned by parents and harassed at the workplace, the story is similar for most transgender persons. Several such tales of struggle and discrimination were shared at an entrpreneu...

One of the founding principles upon which the ideal of Indian democracy rests is the fundamental right of all citizens to be free of discrimination in every sphere of public life. And yet, the transge...