Kiran
Meenakshi tells us about Kiran, a transgender. She shows us the conflicts, trials and tribulations of such a person, who feels trapped in the body of another sex. Here’s...
Transwoman or Woman: Are They Similar?
Shormita tells us about trans-women and how they are different from women. An exclusive for Different Truths. Transwoman are born as male, later they feel like a woman –...
Prayagraj: First Ever Kinner Akhada in 2019 Ardh Kumbh
One of the highlights of the 2019 Ardh Kumbh Mela was the establishment of Kinner Akhada at the world’s largest fair, in the city. It was an attempt to...
Homosexuality: Tracing the Rainbows
Shivani SinghShivani Singh is a 15-year-old student, currently studying in Delhi in 11th grade. She is an alumnus of Mayo College Girls’ School. She composes poems, prose, articles, short...
A Visionary Auteur Goes Gently Into The Good Night
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” —Edmund Hillary Armed with a pedigreed background in film world and a distinct persona of her...
A Historical Perspective of Transgender, a Different Community
In the earliest ages, these people were quite often thought to possess the wisdom that traditionally-gendered people did not, and were venerated for this. As civilisations transformed from matrilineal...
Queer Pride
A poem about the trials and tribulations of the LGBTQ community, by Kabir, for Different Truths. We know what fails to suit us Yet we believe that it is...
Faraz Ansari: Will India respond to the Sisak of the LGBTQ Community?
Director Faraz Ansari’s Sisak is the first silent LGBTQ film of India that is not only creating waves at international film festivals but winning awards too; seven, so far....
Battle of Inclusiveness and Privacy
Seattle-based Chhavi analyses an Op-Ed piece, published in the New York Times, on October 15, 2016. She, thus, unveils the identity issue of a transgender girl, in the weekly...
Hitherto
This poem deals with the difficulties faced by the transgender community. Here’s a humane poem by Kabir, on the people most misunderstood in South Asia, in Different Truths. ...