The participating members of the transgender community – Aishu Jadhav, Dhanu Negi, Shruti Singh, Sridevi Londhe, Shabbo Shaikh, Swaradnya Dattophadhye, Monika, Nidhi More, and Kajal Kurva, have created powerful artworks that share their personal stories and experiences The exhibition, showcasing […]
Several videos show Dalit youths being brutally beaten by the police. The police has arrested over 50 people while several others remain in detention. Mumbai: On December 10, a man vandalised the replica of the constitution placed in the heart […]
Mumbai: Observing that one cannot imagine the trauma and humiliation suffered by the 14-year-old boy and his family due to the shameful acts committed by the accused, a special POCSO court recently convicted and sentenced a 26-year-old transgender individual to […]
An excerpt from ‘Fake Gods and False History: Being Indian in a Contested Mumbai Neighbourhood’, by Jonathan Galton. Jonathan Galton I conducted 12 months’ ethnographic fieldwork in the BDD Chawls neighbourhood in Lower Parel in 2017. On my initial walks […]
Ten people were injured in a stampede at Mumbai’s Bandra railway station after hundreds of passengers tried to board the Bandra-Gorakhpur Antyodaya Express Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Sunday termed the Bandra railway station stampede as an […]
The show cause notice issued to Sengupta emphasises that Sivanandan’s case is pending in court and is therefore “sub judice.” Mumbai: On October 4, an assistant professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad campus, participated in a […]
Mumbai: BMC-run KEM Hospital will start a special outpatient department (OPD)/clinic for transgender persons in the first week of Sept. The clinic will be launched in partnership with NGO Sakhi Char Chaughi, which counsels transgender persons. The hospital will become […]
Aside from following a separate upper age limit criterion for those belonging to the unreserved category and those from SC, ST, and OBC communities, the Bombay High Court has blatantly overlooked the reservation policy in the recruitment process. Sukanya Shantha […]
In a landmark development, Justice M S Sonak, a judge of the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court, became the first person to file a “living will” in Goa, setting a precedent for advance medical directives in the state. […]
The BMC report revealed that the victims had entered the septic tank attached to the community toilet for manual cleaning, a blatant violation of India’s manual scavenging Act passed in 2013. Mumbai- In a tragic incident that shook Malad West’s […]
