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Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2015 is here

ByOrinam Jul 21 2015

Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2015 is being held from July 24 to 26, at Goethe-Institut, Nungambakkam, Chennai

The slow death of the list-serves, losing our history to social media

ByAditya Bondyopadhyay Jun 24 2015Jun 24 2015

The slow death of the list-serves! Loosing our queer history to social media and how to prevent some of its fallout?

Orinam’s stand against caste

ByOrinam Jun 10 2015Jun 10 2015

Orinam also opposes prejudice based on community, caste, place of origin, ethnicity, ability, religion, and other visible and invisible markers of identity.

Though there is always room for questions, discussions and even arguments in any group, when such thoughts clearly go against the common ethical principles on which the group’s foundation rests, they need to be checked, their source needs to be given counseling and if required severed to protect the group.

Thanks Harish!

ByAravind May 26 2015May 26 2015

In my opinion, it is baseless to claim that caste preference pertains to urban lifestyle choices and practices. To believe that participation in the family’s rituals and practices should be restricted to members of their own caste, and justifying it by saying that outsiders may not understand it, is unfair and unjust. Ritual is not Quantum Mechanics, is it? Can one not learn it, and live by it?