The bill, which directly contradicts the landmark NALSA judgment, reflects a basic lack of understanding of the complexity of gender in India.

Dewan combines the wealth of academic scholarship available on the subject with highly original research and gives us a work of immense depth and sensitivity.

The book trains its eyes on climate change and the refugee crisis through myth, legend, history and the so-called ‘irrational’.

"This Bill is not actually giving us any rights, but legalising the atrocities committed on us."

Former ASJ had alleged sexual harassment by a sitting high court judge, Rajya Sabha committee found the latter had interfered in the transfer decision.

Ostensibly, the Bill has been drafted to criminalise trafficking, but experts have said it will adversely affects the lives of sex workers, who already bear the brunt of police brutality, including random and violent raids.

Activists have questioned the court's decision to order a medical/psychological evaluation of the woman before reaching a decision.

A round-up of what’s happening in the worlds of gender and sexuality

An interview with Tanuj Solanki on his latest collection of short stories on urban loneliness set in his hometown – Muzaffarnagar – and the process of what it takes to bring his characters to life.

The Altar of the Only World follows the journeys of three mythological characters through heartbreak, separation, and ultimately, a quest for the self.

To begin with, its definition of the word ‘transgender’ is wrong.

The Sahitya Akademi Award winner's latest murder mystery thrills while engaging with perceptions of queer sexuality in India, questions of class and caste, and the lives of sex workers in Mumbai.

Whether Tata Tea or Pepsi, the ads mock the work done by activists, reducing them to caricatures.

The CBFC has denied the film a certificate for “glorifying” homosexual relationships, “vulgarity”, depicting Hinduism in a “derogatory” fashion and for depicting a Muslim woman masturbating.

A report from the International Commission for Jurists has found that fear of police violence and persecution keeps many queer people away from the justice system.

In an interview, Jerry Pinto talks about putting together a new collection of essays on mental health, the limitations of art, what it means to survive and why you must beware if you have a writer in the family.

The announcement marks 19 years since Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, took the literary world by storm and won her the Man Booker Prize.

He may have been resurrected as a writer by the judiciary and his own poetry, but the forced exile from his own land – the roots of his own writing – have long term consequences for the literature he now produces.

According to the Bebaak Collective, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board's arguments to the Supreme Court are not only conservative, but discriminatory.