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Lucknow: The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Wednesday issued a charge-sheet to S R Siras, a teacher with the varsity’s department of Modern Indian Languages, who was suspended Feb 9 on the ground of prima facie case of gross misconduct.
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Pink Pages February 2010 Issue - 3
Check out the February issue for a glimpse of gay life and lifestyle in the major Indian metros- from gay bars and parties, to film festivals and art exhibitions. Take a peek into Sunil Gupta’s decades old collection of gay photography- arguably the most extensive one you can find in India. Find out how one of the most anticipated queer plays in Hyderabad was recieved by the audience. Check out with Harish how Twitter is turning pink, tweet by tweet! Read what Nuwas has to say about Bollywood’s gay themes creating ripples in neighboring Pakistan. Looking forward to a romantic trip with your better half to destinations in Europe? Then let Pink Pages show you around the two gayest cities of the continent- Paris and London, and what all kinky surprises these two cities have in store for you! Check out the fashion and trends section for the latest looks this spring- bringing you the best from the Copenhagen fashion week, the geekiest touchscreens, and the most exotic accesories for your home’s interiors.
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Read February 2010 Issue – 3 online
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Homophobia of the middle classes
Pink Pages November 2009 Issue - 2
It’s not the uneducated who are against the scrapping of 377. It’s our urban middle class who loathe talking about homosexuality openly. Some feel it is weird while others think it’s a western concept. I have heard innumerable stories where parents had taken their kids to see a psychiatrist when they came out of their closet. I was watching an English news channel a few days back and there was this poll that asked how many wanted gay marriage to be legalized. The percentage was less than 20. Who watches these English news channels? Well that’s your urban India. Even in the 21st century, in Kolkata my hometown, supposedly a centre of culture, religious leaders meet constantly to denounce the judgment and have the impertinence of saying that people of the gay community should be burned. I wonder why these fundamentalists and fascists, who have done nothing for this country can voice their opinions, and women, gay people and the backward classes, are still fearful to speak out.
Amrita Sengupta
Being gay in Pakistan
A very nice article, but something I wanted to mention regarding re-interpretation of the Quran. Quran, like any other book, you can open, read and interpret to the best of your knowledge and experience. There is no such thing as a right interpretation or a wrong one. Everyone has his own capacity to understand and take away the message. Just like a piece of art, a novel or a poem.
Ulema describe or interpret it to the best of their understanding, I can do it to my knowledge, you can also do it to the best of your knowledge. Does not mean one is right or the other is wrong. Same with the story of Lot, some people put a negative charge on it, some do not. And it’s ok both ways. As one can never claim that their thinking or views is the correct one.
The problem arises only when one tries to force their views on others. Whether, you, I, my neighbor or a mullah sitting in a corner mosque.
Oli
Maine gay marriage ban
Democracy has to learn how to balance majority’s wishes as well as protect some basic rights of all minorities. America is an interesting case study
Rishi
Books and Literature
The author of ‘A Married Woman’ indeed has depicted the lesbian scenario in Indian society in the most matter-of fact way. That same sex love struggles to cope up with the various social,cultural, political issues, only to be left unfulfilled at the end is extremely realistic.
Maitreyee
Good review (The Line of Beauty- Alan Hollinghurst), I enjoyed this review as much as I had enjoyed the novel.. Brilliant novel must say, in both ways as in the emotional content as well as the literary style, one of the best I have ever read.
Manas Gautam
The other side of coming out
Thank you for this article. What you said -about coming out being the ‘it’ thing reminds me of some discussions I have had with a dear friend. That we think of ‘coming out’ as getting it off our chests. So that we can be free of the stress of carrying it. But do we ever think how our parents are going to deal with it?
Deep
I ‘was’ Bi, I ‘am’ gay
Pathetic bi-phobic article. Don’t know how it got to make it to Pink Pages.
Tanmay Singhal
Polls and Polls
Emotions very aptly put across. Superbly written. And yes, all these other things will come, but one by one. Hold your horses for now. Let them loose when the time is right. And for people who think differently or have difficulty accepting the LGBT community, let them be. I am sure they will come around.
Shrushti
Congratulations
Many congratulations on this magazine. I and and even my straight pals have found it immensely riveting. I wish your team all the best! Looking forward to many more issues!
Rohit Chavan
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Tushar M.
(With inputs from Ananya Dhote in Delhi, Aditya in Kolkata, Shiva Prasad in Hyderabad, Ravi in Chennai and Kishore Kumar in Pune)
Being a frequent traveler is a nuisance and a boon in itself. The long hours in the trains and buses (Student budget guys! Air travel is way too expensive!) are enough to drain you as it is, but when you end up in a strange city with nowhere to chill and relax, or find a nice cruising place, you end up cursing yourself at the end of a trip as to “Why oh Why was this trip uneventful?” (ahem! I do that a lot!)
So saving all of you frequent travelers a lot of mental aggravation when it comes to having a good time in a strange city, Pink Pages brings to you a blow by blow (pun unintended) account of the LGBT scene across India’s major metropolitan cities. Read the rest of this entry »
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Priya Ganoo
Mumbai is not only one of the safest metros in the country but also a liberal and accepting city. Having said that it’s also the city where people of all class, gender, sexuality come to work, play and make merry. Gay, straight, bisexual, transgender, lesbian-the city loves them all.
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Harish Iyer
When the section 377 case was up for hearing at the High Court, twitterizans echoed and supported the cause in large numbers; many joined the Queer Pride Parade in Bombay. We have had and still have and will have constructive and interesting debates and discussions on Twitter.
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Udayan
Is there a single day when a straight person might be apprehensive of revealing the fact that they’re into a relationship with a person of the opposite sex? Can gay people be so confidently out without even the slightest fear of a negative outcome? Until that day comes, gay pride parades are going to remain as relevant as ever.
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Assuming that the point of counselling is not for the counsellor and the counselee to agree in their beliefs, but in providing conditions for maximizing self-awareness and growth of the counselee enabling him to live a fulfilling life, there are many issues that arise.
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Nuwas Manto
The Indian LGBT community, activists and Bollywood must know that what they do effects the Pakistani society’s perceptions of homosexuality as well as other countries where Bollywood-culture is loved.
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Sutirtho Ganguly
Last September, when I discovered that I would be going to France for some official work, I thanked my stars and immediately planned to visit Paris, even if it was just for a day! Later on, when I got the actual fixture, I figured out that I could afford two days for Paris and I had to meticulously plan the maximum number of places that could be covered in those days. Read the rest of this entry »
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Rohit K. Dasgupta
Old Compton Street has a rich layer of history attached to it. Located at the heart of Soho, London, this street is termed the gayest street of London. It is host to three of the most popular queer bars of London- GAY, KU, and Village. Read the rest of this entry »
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Interview by: Ananya Dhote
Could you tell us something about your background? Was photography always a calling?
Oh no! I first went to a business school; I had a degree in accountancy. Then, I went back to study photography. My parents migrated to Canada when I was 15. My MBA was in New York, so there I made the switch. While in Canada, I was part of the first Gay students’ movement. We started a newspaper and I used to take pictures of the demonstrations for it. So, that’s how it started and, in that way, photography was always tied up to what I was doing generally… I find the subject matter for photography in my own life.
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From major fashion weeks across the world
PARIS
Belt Statement
There were some interesting belts on the Paris Spring Summer 2010 menswear catwalks, with Ann Demeulemeester doing large leather belt, Hermes placing simple but interesting shapes low on the waist, and John Galliano using layering and multiple belts to draw interest to the waistline. Read the rest of this entry »
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Reviewed by Kishore Kumar
by Plato
Penguin Classics, 1999
Rs 250
Plato (c 428-c 347 BC), was a Greek philosopher, student and friend to Socrates, and was one of the most creative and influential thinkers in Western philosophy. Along with his Republic, the Symposium lies at the cornerstone of Western thought. It concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love and, at another, with the nature of knowledge: How do we know what we know?
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Arijeet Chandra
The film opens with a scene in contemporary Moscow where a wrinkle faced old man happens to be interviewed by an American lady reporter. As their conversation proceeds with the sips of scotch, the old man reminisces his life of his school days as “you have no idea what life in England in the 1930s was like. Read the rest of this entry »
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