Born with a female body, he underwent a mastectomy as part of his sex change. Now he struggles to gather the money for the surgery to complete the process
26 June 2013The political activist’s poetry suggests that in many ways, she is now a victim of her own sacrifices
19 June 2013Sinam Ongbi Chandrajini lost two young sons and a sister when Assam Rifles personnel arbitrarily opened fire on civilians in Malom in 2000. It was the horror of this incident that led Irom Sharmila to begin her fast against AFSPA
15 May 2013Azad Khan was 12 years old when he was shot in Manipur, allegedly for being an insurgent. A Commission appointed by the Supreme Court has ruled this was one of six extra judicial killings
09 May 2013State governments are turning to vipassana to control stress among staff
21 April 2013For fashion designer Arjun Saluja, clothes are a way to transcend gender lines
20 April 2013How a woman trapped in a man’s body fought to find herself
05 April 2013The Rainbow Family of Living Light is a fringe community that claims to have no rules
08 March 2013Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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