Tag: Kolkata
Activist demands apology from Bengal Education Minister over “Lesbianism is against Bengal’s culture” remark
Kolkata: When a group of girls at Kamala Girls High School were made to sign a confession letter stating that they are lesbian, what...
Meet Bivas Chatterjee, the lawyer who helped Bengal’s revenge porn victim get justice in six months
Kolkata: Bivas Chatterjee, the 43-year-old, Public Prosecutor of West Bengal for cybercrime and electronic evidence case, who helped the revenge porn victim from Midnapur...
India’s first TransQueen resigns, fights on and off the stage while participating MIQ
Kolkata: India’s first TransQueen Nitasha Biswas is participating in Miss International Queen (MIQ) 2018, at Bangkok, which could have been the inception of a...
Joyita Mondal: Transgender, who left home, begged, slept at platform but now holds the most respectable job
Kolkata: She has had to sleep on a bus stop or railway station. Hotels have refused accommodation. She has been bullied for her identity....
Jharkhand Government is treating poor people like guinea pigs—Jean Dreze
Kolkata: Developmental economist Jean Dreze, who is presently leading a campaign - Ration Bachao in Jharkhand, was in Kolkata to release the Bengali translation of...
From Selling Vegetables to Building a Hospital: The Padma Shri-Winning Journey of Subasini Mistry
Widowed at 24 after losing her husband to a treatable illness, Subasini Mistry vowed to build a hospital for the poor. Working as a maid and vegetable seller, she saved to educate her son as a doctor and founded Humanity Hospital in 1996. Now a Padma Shri awardee, she continues expanding affordable healthcare