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

How inclusive are city’s queer spaces?

Queer spaces are usually imagined as class-less and caste-less spaces where sexual identity predominantly rules. However, these sexual identities are mostly interwoven with class or other social landscapes that are often ignored within the framework of sexual politics

Bindu keeps a promise: Marries herself in a digitized event

Today a unique event took place. Kshama Bindu, a 24-year-old Gujarati woman who identifies herself as bisexual, married herself. The wedding took place digitally with all the wedding rituals presided over by an online pundit

Tracing the queer elements: Life and works of Ameer Khusrow

Pride Month seems an apt time to recall the love of Ameer Khusrow Dehlawi, the great poet and Sufi mystic, for Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. His outpourings became an integral part of Hindustani literature and are still re-enacted during Basant Panchami

Pride Month incoming: What’s in a pronoun?

While using ‘he’ and ‘she’ as gender-identity pronouns is the norm in heterosexual India, there is a large section of queer India that does not want to stay confined in the tussle of choosing between these binaries. In light of the June LGBTQIA+ pride month, Patriot looks at how have Delhiites received the usage of gender and preferred pronouns

DCW rescues 13-year-old girl being forced to work as domestic help

The Delhi Commission For Women (DCW) on Monday rescued a 13-year-old orphan girl from a house in northwest Delhi's GTB Nagar who was being inhumanely treated and forced to work as a domestic help, it said in a statement.