ISHQ Symposium | Panel Discussion & Performance

Last in the ISHQ series for this year, the Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality presents to you a symposium that marks the completion of its first year of activity. It includes a panel discussion with: Anjali Gopalan, Founder & Executive Director of the Naz...

Mary E. John | Uniform Civil Code & Indian Feminism

This presentation will examine the historical trajectories of how communities in the Indian context came to be uniquely identified in the struggle over women from the colonial period to the present. The story of the twists and turns of women’s agonistic relation to...

Sandip Roy | Don’t Let Him Know

With Section 377 back in the news, the visibility of LGBT issues in the Indian media has come out of the closet—or should we say almirah? Yet the community is still called a “minuscule minority” because the issue remains shrouded in stigma and secrecy. As a journalist...

Urvashi Butalia | Mona: A sort of life/A life of Sorts

Urvashi Butalia will be speaking about her many-year old friendship with Mona Ahmed, a hijra who lives in a graveyard cum madrassa compound in Delhi, and with whom she began work a little over fifteen years ago, on a project of writing her life. Sharing the story...