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World Social Media Day | 5 debut novels capture the virality, absurdity & influence of social media
On World Social Media Day, June 30, pick up any of these five books whose plot is centred on or is driven by a bizarre social-media incident on which they’re based.
ENTERTAINMENT
Pride Month | Two queer actors on the need for more LGBTQIA+ voices in the Indian film industry
Tamil actor Negha, first trans actor to bag the Kerala State Film Awards, and Hindi actor Vidur Sethi, who was recently seen in Onir's 'Pine Cone' at the KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, break down the roadblocks within the movie landscape.
BOOKS
International Yoga Day 2023: Venture capitalist Rizwan Virk retells yogi Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography
Like Steve Jobs and George Harrison did, Rizwan Virk keeps revisiting Paramahansa Yogananda 'Autobiography'. Virk, whose new book 'Wisdom of a Yogi' is a retelling of 'Autobiography', believes that worldly duties can be part of one's Zen path to clarity.
BOOKS
Pride Month | Ruth Vanita: ‘It is a gift to be born in India, I’d like to be reborn in India’
The writer of same-sex love much before it became the talk of the town, Ruth Vanita speaks about her works and highlights the importance of the right for queer people to get married.
ENTERTAINMENT
Pride Month: 3 Indian queer couples on Netflix’s ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’
To marry or move? The show stirs up the gay marriage argument that members of the LGBTQIA+ community have petitioned for in the Supreme Court.
BOOKS
World Environment Day 2023 | This climate & nature investor’s book makes a case for regenerative, not extractive, economy
Oxford-educated investor Siddarth Shrikanth presents a business-oriented case for nature in his new book 'The Case for Nature: The Other Planetary Crisis'.
BOOKS
A Kerala story | ‘If it could be Thajudheen, it could also be you’: Author Shevlin Sebastian
In his new book, ‘The Stolen Necklace’, veteran journalist Shevlin Sebastian tells the real-life story of VK Thajudheen, wrongfully incarcerated for 54 days in 2018 for an alleged necklace theft, mistaken for a thief based on a CCTV image. He lost everything and is still fighting for justice.
BOOKS
Mr Solicitor General, here are 5 books to read this Lesbian Visibility Week, to grasp queer matters
As the world follows the same-sex marriage proceedings at the Supreme Court, here is a list of recommended reading in the ongoing Lesbian Visibility Week (April 24-30): five recently published books that spotlight stories of queer women.
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World Autism Awareness Day: How to parent an autistic child?
A new book, by a father about his son, reinforces recommendations for good parenting — which builds good citizens and societies — and provides a language to communicate better with people with autism.
LIFESTYLE
Kubbra Sait: ‘I started writing from a place of getting healed’
A former corporate employee, TV host, model, actor, and now a writer, Kubbra Sait, who's recently published her memoir 'Open Book', talks about the power of hugs, letting Sacred Games' Kukoo live on in people's hearts and hustling to make more money to survive in expensive Mumbai.
LIFESTYLE
Book review: 'Raw Umber' by Sara Rai is a reflective, piercing personal account
'Raw Umber' is a celebration of multiculturalism and of the women of Sara Rai's household. Because the myth of Rai's grandfather Premchand is so overwhelming, it’s easier to miss her grandmother Shivarani Devi’s contributions, both participated in the freedom movements through their fiction.
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Book review | ‘After Sappho’ intricately weaves life stories of iconic queer feminists
2022 Booker Prize longlisted Selby Wynn Schwartz's 'After Sappho' will be remembered as an extraordinary novel that celebrates women, calls out their erasure or rejection by male-dominated literary circles, and traces the historical figures who wrote on women loving women.
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Exhibition | When women take hold of art
The Delhi exhibition, 'Mycelial Legacies', presents 60 years of practice and 30 artists, in keeping with curator Deeksha Nath's 'desire to include artists who are (present) across generations', from the late artists Kishori Kaul and Rini Dhumal, to Anita Dube and Nilima Sheikh, among others.
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Book review: This collection of 18 short stories by women looks inward
The call for stories for the collection went out in 2019. Then the pandemic hit, and marked the book in many ways.
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25 most-anticipated Indian book titles of 2023
From several first-ever English translations to the anthology of stories on friendship and short stories on maladies, here’s a list of an eclectic blend of the most-anticipated titles of 2023.
HEALTH-TRENDS
Forbes 30 Under 30, 2022 | Meet Dr Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju whose content helps queer children connect with their journeys
Dr Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju, Karnataka's first transgender doctor and social media influencer who's a part of Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2022, has a web-series coming up, and asserts the importance of childlike wonders, therapy, and not defining womanhood.
LIFESTYLE-TRENDS
Forbes 30 Under 30, 2022 | Rahi Chadda: 'We’re heading towards a more realistic image of beauty'
Dior Beauty's first brown male ambassador, the lawyer turned fashion model and social media influencer Rahi Chadda has made it to Forbes 30 Under 30, 2022, and speaks of body positivity, beauty becoming more inclusive, and being the role model he wanted to see, since the West had no South Asian role models for him to look up to.
HEALTH-TRENDS
World AIDS Day: How generations of queer people documented the HIV/AIDS crisis
It was only in 1982 that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention renamed 'gay cancer' to AIDS to reflect the fact that it wasn’t isolated to the gay community
LIFESTYLE-TRENDS
Book Review | ‘Manjhi’s Mayhem’ is much more than your run-of-the-mill noir
Tanuj Solanki places his new crime thriller 'Manjhi’s Mayhem' at the centre of the politics of language and storytelling.
ENTERTAINMENT
'No one thinks of gender minorities when they think of Kashmir': ‘Trans Kashmir’ directors
SA Hanan and Surbhi Dewan, the directors of the documentary 'Trans Kashmir', on why there can't be a Kashmir without its transgender community, who once enjoyed a rich life and social standing but now are barely surviving in a state of neglect
LIFESTYLE-TRENDS
Maya Sharma: The chronicler of unprivileged queer life stories
The author of 'Footprints of a Queer History: Life-Stories from Gujarat', on wearing language like clothes, in line with one's needs, and the privileged demand for same sex marriage
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How to take rejection, and 5 more takeaways from Edelweiss CEO Radhika Gupta’s ‘Limitless’
Edelweiss' Radhika Gupta on the perils of getting into a comfort zone at work, risk taking, work-life integration, taking rejection, and using negative feedback to get better.
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Book review: ‘Young Mungo’ is a disturbing tale of hypermasculinity and breakability of a queer body
In the literary world Douglas Stuart builds in 'Young Mungo', the queer body is hyper-visible.
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LGBTQIA rights: How to build a more queer-affirmative world
What we can each do to make things just a little bit better, and tips for parents of queer kids.
