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Nominated for the Xulhan Mannan Award in the “Foreign press” category of the French Association of LGBTQI+ Journalists (AJL)'s annual awards.
"Current Management is among the first such initiative in Asia that aims to represent only queer models and artistes"
Read Can India’s first queer talent agency shake up the spotlight?
"Malay Roychoudhury, one of the co-founders of the 1960s' Hungryalist literary movement, was a notorious cocktail of confessional verse that continually flouted norms and flirted with danger."
Read Malay Roychoudhury (1939-2023): The Explosive Poet of India's Hungryalist Movement in The Wire
"From the 70s gun-slinging, hip-flask alcoholics coming home to despairing mothers and anxious girlfriends to today’s portrayal of women speaking out against a single slap – we have been on a roller-coaster ride as far as the portrayal of women is concerned."
Read Women still given a second tier status in Bollywood films? at The Established
Glorification of beauty that often adheres to western standards leads to a huge section of insecure and neglected aspirants. "
Read Body Positivity Is the Solution to ‘Tokenist’ Inclusion in the Indian Fashion Industry, Say Models at The Wire
"Interfaith and inter-caste relationships have always been difficult in India. As the Supreme Court hears petitioners pleading for marriage equality, the time is ripe to see how laws and hatred have stopped love".
Read Love in the Times of Intolerance: Hpw Policy and Social Prejudice are holding back the Romantic Indian at The Wire
“By robbing people of the opportunity to get the sex education they deserve, and the autonomy over their own bodies that they could have achieved,
Read Sex and Other Demons: Exploring India's Complex relationship with Intimacy and Romance at The Wire
"From disrupted hormone replacement therapy and widespread job losses to gender discrimination in Covid19 testing centres, transgender Indians have been among the worst-hit victims of the pandemic. A portrait of a marginalised community pushed further into the shadows."
Read Pride & Prejudice: India’s Trans People Among Worst Victims Of Covid-19 at Article 14
"Tagore’s involvement with Swadeshi advertising had the atypical pattern of the ‘ours is better than yours’ – understandable in a market where everything is too new to be loved in itself, and easier to be pitted against a common enemy."
Read How Swadeshi Brands Benefitted From Rabindranath Tagore’s Iconic Stature at The Wire India
"Irrespective of the election results, Bengal, which once prided itself in intellectual heritage and broadmindedness, has got mired in a vortex of narrow identity politics."
Read Celebrating Satyajit Ray in Times of Rising Intolerance in Bengal at The Wire India
"He was, perhaps, one of the most reliable links that Bengal and India had to the counter-culture movements across America and Europe."
Read Remembering Pradip Choudhuri, the Trilingual Poet of Bengal's Hungry Generation at The Wire India
Interview: 'The Raj Kundra Episode Is a Distraction from Pegasus'
Read In conversation with filmmaker Q of Gandu (2010), Brahman Naman (2016), Tasher Desh (2012), Garbage (2018) and Ludo (2015) fame. at The Wire India
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