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Articles for Scroll.in
Gay literature is firmly out of the closet in India, and winning readers over
Champions of the cause of equal rights for same sex lovers – now the LGBT community – have steadily produced remarkable gay literature in post-colonial India. Through compelling stories and canvasses, the issue of homosexuality...
Articles for bonobology.com
What makes her a woman?
But mind you, this society tolerates no imperfections. We know how cruel people can be to women who fall short on even half a parameter. Don’t we know the names that are given to women who do not menstruate or cannot have children? If we are flat chested, there is a problem...
Articles for The Hindu
The Epic In-betweeners
Because it is mostly unaddressed, our discomfort with matters pertaining to the third gender is palpable. But our bards of old weren’t half as shy to acknowledge and include such individuals in their stories. The Mahabharata offers several examples of people who are neither male nor female...
