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Out at Campus- India’s openly gay academicians

Posted by nipun.goyal On June - 12 - 2010

Tushar M, in view of the recent controversy and subsequent ’suicide’ of Dr. S.R. Siras, conducts an interview of various openly gay professors and academicians across India to know about their views and how difficult it is to be out in the academia.

Dr Sreenivas Siras, a Marathi professor at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) sacked for being gay, was found dead on April 7, 2010. Siras, 64, was suspended by the conservative institution after a secretly shot videotape surfaced, showing him having sex with a rickshaw puller. On appeal, the Allahabad High Court had stayed the suspension and ordered his reinstatement. Read the rest of this entry »

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Gay Pride 2010 Special

Posted by editor On June - 12 - 2010

It’s that time of the year again to throw back all inhibitions and fly with panache the rainbow flag! As gay pride spreads to more cities of India, it’s the young who’re the outest and proudest of them all. So what do they think of gay pride? What does it mean to their lives? Here’s what some of you said. Read the rest of this entry »

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Gay in the City

Posted by nipun.goyal On February - 25 - 2010

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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The original crusader

Posted by editor On October - 15 - 2009

Ananya Dhote talks to Ashok Row Kavi, the pioneering gay rights activist of India. A journalist by profession, Ashok has always held LGBT rights close to his heart. He talks about his early days, his coming out, his stint at the Ramakrishna Mission, and later on the birth of Bombay Dost and Humsafar Trust.

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Freedom… after 150 years!

Posted by nipun.goyal On July - 5 - 2009

Nipun Goyal speaks to three prominent gay rights activists on the historic Delhi High Court ruling declaring homosexuality legal- Mayur, from the Delhi Queer Pride Committee; Nitin Karani, editor of Bombay Dost; and Harish Iyer, pioneer of the ‘Friends of Gays’, Mumbai.

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