On the line with a fraud?

These are white collar crimes with a difference. Call centres are set up to make fraudulent offers to those seeking jobs or loans Every now and then, phone service providers send out text messages to beware of fraudulent calls which will ask you to swap your SIM. And banks warn you to never ever divulge […]

‘I first came out to myself’

A first person account by a professional whose happy childhood turned into a nightmare adolescence till he found acceptance among college friends What is being gay? How do gay men live? How do they perform the sexual act? Is that even natural? These were some of the questions that started crossing my mind when I […]

Battle royal against homophobia

From the Rajpipla palace grounds in Gujarat, Manvendra Singh Gohil is celebrating India’s real independence. Manvendra Singh Gohil, whose name would be prefixed with ‘Prince’ if royal titles had not been abolished, is not just a face adorning the walls of palaces in Rajpipla. Since coming out as a gay in 2006, he has leveraged […]

rainbow time

The scrapping of Section 377 is a huge victory for the LGBTQA+ community. their voices have been heard On Thursday morning, India woke up to one of the most historic, pragmatic verdicts the country’s apex court ever passed. A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra unanimously struck down the […]

It’s a long drive home

The dark clouds hovering over NCR’s home buyers now have a silver lining, as some of their issues are being resolved in court. But by and large, possession is still not visible on the horizon “It is nothing less than robbery,” says Raj Jha, an IT professional who was promised possession of his dream home […]

Unfailing pressure

Many students who fail their exams go into depression, some even commit suicide. But several reasons can lead to this failure, which does not indicate a bleak future Ramesh (name changed), a student of a reputed private school in Gurgaon, was never good in studies. Rather he was always fond of playing cricket. “He was […]

Enabling judgement

Medical colleges can no longer shut the door on students with certain types of disability, as the Medical Council of India sought to do. The High Court has upheld their rights In August this year, four aspiring medical students with low vision, hearing impairments, specific learning disabilities and disabilities to do with blood disorder were […]

AFSPA and the way forward

The armed forces, the government and the Supreme Court have not focused on the refinement of the AFSPA On September 10, the unprecedented petition of 356 officers and soldiers against the dilution of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), without specific amendment to that effect—and the perceived prosecution and persecution by the CBI for […]