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‘We Did It Our Way’: Telangana’s First Gay Married Couple Speak on Love, Life...
Quintessential big fat Indian weddings entail all the usual — one year of planning, gruelling long discussions over flowers, cake and venues, and searching in vain for a consensus on the perfect date....
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‘Go Ahead & Love’: Why a Lawyer Dedicated 20 Years to Unite 200 Inter-Caste...
In 2003, when Se Gunasekar was working as an auditor, the news of a gruesome honour killing was sweeping the nation. In a village in Virudhachalam, a town in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district, a young...
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Abandoned by Parents, Transwoman Sold Jewellery to Make a Home for Orphans &...
“I belong to a reputed family. My father works in the police department. But when I disclosed my sexual identity to my parents, I was thrown out of my house,” says Nakshatra, who identifies as a trans...
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‘Carrying on My Father’s Dream’: The Man Behind A Quaint Café Run by Trans...
In an overcrowded metropolis like Mumbai, to think that a mere 500-sq-ft space is trying to ‘change your outdated perception’ is quite a stretch. But as you pass through several bylanes to find the...
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‘From Hating My Mom to Learning How She Saved my Life’: Rescued Sex Worker’s...
Trigger Warning: Mentions of rape, sexual and physical abuse. *All identities in the story have been kept anonymous. It was a regular morning in October 2014. I was getting ready to go to school with...
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‘At 5, I Saw My Mom Being Pressured to Abort’: 23-YO on Fighting Female...
“Our relatives thought having two girls in the house would mean that my father would need to turn into a bodyguard.” While this is the thought that most Indian homes have about the birth of a girl...
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‘I’d Never Seen Anyone Like Him Before’: Drag Artist’s Spouse Shares Their...
The first thing that Raji noticed about Patruni was the way he danced. “I was truly mesmerised,” the 25-year-old, a resident of Hyderabad, recalls in a conversation with The Better India. “It began...
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‘I Am Demisexual; Here’s What It Means’: Non-Binary Person on Navigating...
Kerala-based Reshma Anil Kumar first began reckoning with their identity during their undergraduate degree, when they developed feelings for their best friend. “I was confused and started doubting...
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Actor R Madhavan’s directorial debut Rocketry: The Nambi Effect is all set for release on 1 July 2022. Madhavan plays the title character, based on the life of an aerospace engineer at the Indian Space...
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Becoming ‘Beyonce’: Inside the Secret Life of a Drag Queen Leading a Dual Life
“Like Kamal Hassan in the movie Chachi 420 — or Avvai Shanmugi — I feel like I’m living a dual life as well,” says Beyonce, a drag queen living in Bengaluru. Needless to say, Beyonce is not her real...
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I Recreated Ravi Varma’s Paintings With Trans Models to Disrupt Beauty Standards
For some, art is mere entertainment. For Kollam-born photographer Sharun S, it is a way of demolishing age-old stereotypes and beauty standards. His most recent photoshoot is a testament to that. He...
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Transferred Money Into a Wrong Bank Account? Here’s How to Get It Back
Digital payments have undoubtedly made shopping easier. One is able to transfer and receive money at the click of a button. However, with this ease comes a fear of making a wrong payment. Have you ever...
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A Feminist Icon Who Spent Decades Educating Thousands of Girls in Mumbai’s Slums
In September 1980, in the aftermath of the Mathura Rape Case, four law professors penned an open letter to the Supreme Court to protest how it viewed consent. The court had acquitted two policemen who...
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‘Biryani Breaks Barriers’: 68-YO Wedding Caterer & Grandma to an Army of...
The aroma of the delicious mutton biryani enticed the guests who had gathered for Joseph’s daughter’s wedding in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. One of them enquired which catering service was managing the...
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How Three Friends Prevented 7.5 Lakh Plastic Milk Packets From Entering...
A viral social media post inspired three women — Kunti Oza, Hansu Pardiwala, and Chitra Hiremath — to save 7.5 lakh plastic milk packets from going into landfills and polluting the planet. The post...
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This Kerala Doctor Refused to Submit ‘Fake’ Reports Covering Up Custodial...
In 2018, Dr K Prathibha was working in the Kannur district hospital when a set of policemen arrived for the medical screening test of a convict. During the test, the officers wanted her to cover up a...
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Seeing My Cousins Suffer as Child Brides Pushed me to Help 6,500 Women Escape...
Trigger warning: This story contains mentions of abuse, domestic violence At the age of 17, Sultana was married off to Mohammed Sayeeduddin, who was almost 15 years older than her. From the time she...
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‘I’m Disabled & My Sexuality is Valid’: Navigating Intimacy As a Queer...
“For disabled women, the road to discovering our sexuality is lonely,” says 24-year-old Nu Misra from Delhi. Describing themself as an activist, Nu, who has an acquired physical disability, says that...
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Noida’s Twin Towers: How A Group of Senior Citizens Led to India’s Biggest...
The 32-storey Supertech twin towers in Noida came crashing down on Sunday. The razing down of these two towers – Apex and Ceyanne, were due to the dogged pursuit of justice by a group of majorly...
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Abandoned by Parents, Kerala Hero Opens His Heart & Home to the Elderly,...
Unlike the kids who wished for toys and more play time growing up, all young Rajesh Thiruvalla desired was a peaceful home and a loving family. His father had abandoned him and his mother at an age he...
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