Pedalling to move up in life

Power The Pedal, a campaign by Greenpeace India, empowers working-class women by offering them cycles and creates a much-needed dialogue around city’s unequal infrastructure

Girls busting a move

Tossing away gender stereotypes, women rappers are entering the male-dominated underground hip-hop territory

Decide in one month plea to recognise transgender as third gender for bus travel: HC to Delhi govt

Delhi High Court has ordered the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to decide within one month a representation seeking legal recognition of the transgender community as the third gender in bus tickets.

Finding the code in man’s world

Women in engineering have come a long way thanks to introduction of women-friendly subjects especially those involving computers

Calls to allow same-sex marriages

The Queer Community believes that same-sex marriages should be legalised

Women should celebrate their victories so they don’t go unheard: Actress and Miss India Sayali Bhagat

Sayali Bhagat's recent fashion show witnessed a celebration of the achievements of inspiring women. Here she talks about challenges women face and how Bollywood's portrayal of women changed over the years

Do you feel pressured to be ‘manly’?

With deep-rooted ideas about masculinity in our society comes the pressure of men having to provide for their families, bottle up their emotions and generally act ‘manly’. Patriot finds out what men in Delhi-NCR feel about this

‘I brought out the nuances of queerness’: Actor Vidur Sethi

In recent years, there has been a sense that when heterosexual actors play homosexual characters, they fail to portray the reality and nuances of a queer character. Now, for the first time, a gay character will be played by an actor from the queer community: Vidur Sethi in Pine Cone