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Some stories never fail to impress

Known tales and known story-tellers. Nandikar’s Kochi Kacha Der Hotto Mela had nothing new to offer, nothing that comes as remarkably fresh and innovative. But old stories were more of a déjà vu. Something that was neither fresh nor innovative but special indeed. Plays based on stories of Sunil Gangopadhyay…

Walk with pride

Usually deserted on Sunday afternoons, College Square wore a different look on 29 June. Cameras, ob vans, media persons queued up outside munching seconds as ‘mysterious’ people from ‘mysterious’ places kept trickling in 4… 10… 25… to around 150 and more. Buses and trams slowed down with inquisitive faces popping…

Gender Agenda

Every year, every month, every day, every second a child is born who stares at a world that cares little. It’s born with dual identity, which is callously termed as “no identity”. The child is born not to be a girl or a boy, but a eunuch. The child born…

Walking the line

The second edition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Film and Video Festival highlighted the lack of knowledge about a community that continues to be shunned, writes Soma Basu A few words opened a window that looked away from the mundane world we live in. Dialogues, the second annual Lesbian,…