Rather chuffed to be featured in Avijit Mukul Kishore's new film on queer folx in Indian politics, along with superstars Akkai Padmashali, Anish Gawande, Rohin Bhatt🏳️‍🌈 and T Jayashree. Thank you for including the story of my journey, Mukul. Good luck with the premiere. ♥️

My Air India flight AI 2807 from New Delhi to Bengaluru tonight witnessed an extremely distressing medical situation. A woman in the seat behind me began bleeding profusely and incessantly through her nose. The flight attendants handled their high-pressure task very well,

Indian academia in the year of the RSS centenary.

Arundhati Roy had never planned to write a memoir. That changed when she lost her most captivating and complicated subject: her mother, Mary Roy. I interviewed her on her new book, ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’. thehindu.com/books/arundhat…

Delighted to preside over the start of the #Onam festivities with the queer community today in Calicut (Kozhikode). My All India Professionals' Congress (AIPC) #LGBTQIA+ team & I will be hosted graciously by the Malabar Cultural Forum & the Credence Foundation. Can't wait to meet our constituents in Kerala &

We're so honoured to be a part of this event! If you're in Kozhikode please drop in and say hello!

Umar Khalid was denied bail again by the Delhi High Court today. He has spent over 1,813 days in detention (almost 5 years) without trial simply for protesting a discriminatory law. This is what criminalizing dissent looks like. #Umar_Khalid

It's been seven years since #LGBTQIA+ people were decriminalized by India's Supreme Court. I write for Mariwala Health Initiative on what my friends and I were thinking about as we climbed up the steps of the apex court that historic morning. #QueerAzadiZindabad! 🇮🇳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Over the last two years, I've developed a survey course on the queer history of India, versions of which I have taught in colleges across the country. I consider my pedagogy an activist endeavor, engaging with young people on histories they have never had the privilege of

Absolutely nothing in Jimmy Kimmel Live's monologue about Charlie Kirk was inaccurate or beyond the pale. His silencing, along with the muzzle on The Late Show, casts a pall over the most consistently intelligent & hilarious political critique that America had to offer.

Why has the communal BJP created such a brouhaha about the presence of #BanuMushtaq at the #MysuruDasara celebrations? As this Wadiyar-era painting of the Dasara ceremony shows, Muslims have always participated in the commemorations, and been given places of honor within them.

PM Narendra Modi is an embarrassingly weak leader, who has demonstrated a galling inability to stand up to American bullying. Landslide tariffs, deportees in chains & now crushing visa fees have brought us international disgrace. Manmohan Singh frequently underlined the strict

Disappointing that #AzimPremji has refused CM Siddaramaiah's request to allow temporary traffic decongestion through Wipro's Sarjapur campus in Bengaluru. Some of this traffic congestion is of Wipro's own making: In 2018, the BBMP agreed to upgrade the Sarjapur Road to six

Happy Dussehra and Ashoka Vijaya Dashami! Meet Rajakumara and Shahzadeh, the first Gombe / Bommai dolls I've ever purchased, who will henceforth lord over my home and heart.

An advocate claiming to represent "Sanatan Dharma" attempts to hurl his shoe at India's second Dalit Chief Justice, BR Gavai. This is a casteist, cowardly & criminal act. Shame on these Hindutva supremacist louts. India will never be yours as long as our Constitution is supreme.

"Sanatan ka apmaan nahi sahega Hindustan." Remember these intolerant words the next time a Hindutva supremacist brags about the mythical "tolerance" of one community, which has supposedly allowed India to remain secular.

Mr. Modi, when you allow the exclusion of women journalists from a public forum, you are telling every woman in India that you are too weak to stand up for them. In our country, women have the right to equal participation in every space. Your silence in the face of such

We call on the RSS to respond to grave allegation of systemic sexual abuse that preceded the tragic death of Mr Anandu Aji, a young IT professional. All India Professionals' Congress (AIPC) also demands a court-monitored probe into its shakhas, or any other spaces where the organisation has access to children.

Israelis are called 'hostages', but Palestinians are merely 'detainees'. Hostages are empathized with. Detainees are a dry, dispassionate category, predisposed to further dehumanization. All were held captive against their will, but only some are afforded compassion and dignity.

Sad, disgusted, & angry. I want to respond to every word, but I’m just so tired & hopeless right now. My apologies to all the other survivors who shared their experiences and deserve so much more, at the very least, an apology. My heart goes out to each of you. In solidarity.