Orientation with a difference: Saathi reaches out to incoming students at IIT Bombay
Saathi, the LGBTQ group at IIT Bombay, organised a structured orientation for incoming students. Report by Aaditya Joshi, with links to resource materials.
First Love: a video by IIT-B students
In this heart-warming video, students of IIT-Bombay speak about their first love, including the kind that dares speak its name and break the silence around it.
Breaking Barriers: India’s first high school LGBTQI initiative
Profile of Tagore International School, New Delhi, whose group ‘Breaking Barriers’ works to promote LGBTQI equality on campus and beyond.
IITs against 377
Full text of the petition sent in by 1157 members of the Indian Institutes of Technology against the Supreme Court verdict recriminalising homosexuality.
Dharun Ravi Apologizes for His Actions. Your Thoughts?
On Tuesday May 29, for the first time, Dharun Ravi issued an apology for his actions related to the Rutgers webcam incident. What do you think?
Statement from Tyler Clementi’s Brother
James Clementi, brother of Tyler Clementi, who is also gay, read an impact statement at the courthouse right before Dharun Ravi’s sentencing
Dharun Ravi Sentenced
Dharun Ravi, an Indian citizen living in New Jersey was sentenced by the Middlesex county courthouse today in the NJ vs Dharun Ravi case.
Dharun and Ravi: Two Different Worlds
Dharun Ravi and his father Ravi Pazhani are from two different worlds. Is Dharun’s alleged homophobia a result of cultural conflict between these two worlds?
Tyler Clementi and Dharun Ravi
Ian Parker, writing for the New Yorker, has an absolutely must read story that goes in depth into the tragic…
From Academia to America
Despite the existence of desi queer collectives and communities here in DC, the responses and reactions of many Americans (both white and black people) to the visible presence of a queer person coming from India (me, in this case) have been a wee bit strange for me.