Third Gender - Different Truths

February 16, 2024
Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein
LGBTQIA+, Parenting, Special Feature

Valentine’s Day: Respecting all Love Relationships

Tabassum argues in favour of the LGBTQ community, particularly on this Valentine’s Day, when all love relationships are celebrated. Sadly, the Third Gender continues to be excluded and persecuted....

June 18, 2021
Shormita Bose
Poem

This is Not the End…

Shormita pens an evocative poem about the Third Gender, exclusively for Different Truths. Trees shed their leaves, My skin is dried up. Lips seems to be thirsty, The Sun...

February 15, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Bijnor Murder to Polarise the Second Phase of Voting in UP; Rebels in Cong, BJP Spoilers in the Uttarakhand Polls

In the second phase of polling in UP, 721 candidates are in the fray out of which 69 are female, while there is also a nominee from the third...

July 1, 2016
Urooj Murtaza
Conflict Resolution, Cover Story, Gender

Transgender in Pakistan: A Fatwa and Courts Grant Greater Rights and Dignity

Like elsewhere in South Asia, the transgender people in Pakistan, were discriminated against, before 2009. Despite education, Riffie Khan with a double Masters’ degree was unable to get meaningful...

May 8, 2016
Padmini Sharma
Cover Story, Human Rights

Living Beyond the Margins: Hijras of Kolkata, a Curse or a Prayer!

US-based Padmini has been working for the emancipation of the hijras. She recounts a chance meeting with them during one of her visits to Kolkata. She tells us about the paroxysms...

Valentine’s Day: Respecting all Love Relationships

This is Not the End…

Bijnor Murder to Polarise the Second Phase of Voting in UP; Rebels in Cong, BJP Spoilers in the Uttarakhand Polls

Transgender in Pakistan: A Fatwa and Courts Grant Greater Rights and Dignity

Living Beyond the Margins: Hijras of Kolkata, a Curse or a Prayer!

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