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Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 9:47pm By Dr Martha LeeIndia’s first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride shop has opened up in Mumbai. The flagship shop, Azaad Bazaar, sells a range of items such as mugs, T shirts, and ashtrays to encourage lesbians and gays to have pride in...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 7:04am By Matthew LawrenceInternet users in several Asian countries may have been disappointed earlier this month after both Yahoo and Bing quietly began censoring adult material. The Guardian reported Monday that both search engines, as well as Yahoo-owned photo-sharing...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 9:54pm By Dr Martha LeeEunuchs, known as "hijras" in Pakistan, who are men castrated at an early age for medical or social reasons, will now be allowed to identify themselves as a distinct gender in order to ensure their rights, ruled Pakistan’s Supreme...
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Monday, December 21, 2009 - 2:12pm By Chris HallLast year, the International Women's Health Coalition sent Audacia Ray and Khushbu Srivastava to India to do media training and coordinate with the organization's partners there. While there, Ray shot the video below about SANGRAM, a grassroots...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 9:51am By Matthew LawrenceOver a thousand young Indian men have volunteered to marry sex workers as a means to save the women from exploitative brothels and HIV infection. The BBC reports that the 1,174 men are followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda (Abode of the Real...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 6:38am By Jessica O'ReillyPakistan's The Daily Mail reports that the Indian army has deployed approximately 200 prostitutes to Indian-occupied Kashmir to tend to the “genuine and natural needs” of male soldiers. According to the Pakistani news source, the...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 9:39am By Jessica O'ReillyGary Kirsten, the coach of India’s cricket team, has caused a nation-wide stir by publishing a manual that suggests players have sex before their games. Equally controversial is his recommendation that those players without sexual partners...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 5:21am By Matthew LawrenceThe Indian government has known for a while now that certain parts of the country are suffering a shortage of females. But now The Calcutta Telegraph reports that young voters are asking politicians to solve the problem in the Northern state...
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News: Indian Men's Rights Group Claims 120,000 Harassed Husbands Have Committed Suicide in Four YearsSunday, August 16, 2009 - 11:27pm By John PettittThe Save Indian Family Foundation, a mens rights group, is campaigning change India's strong laws against domestic violence to give equal protection to men. The group claims that around 120,000 harassed men have committed suicide in the last four...
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Friday, July 24, 2009 - 1:42pm By Chris HallAt Akimbo, Khushbu Srivastav reports on a controversy that erupted recently in India when the state government of Madhya Pradesh forced 151 women partaking in a mass wedding to first undergo virginity and pregnancy tests. The state ordered the tests...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 12:22pm By Chris HallThe Indian state of Bihar, located in the east of the country, has been suffering from such a severe lack of rain this year that politicians are beginning to call for it to be officially declared "drought-hit" in order to make the area...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 2:44pm By Chris HallContentSutra reports that India's Department of Telecommunications has told all Internet Service Providers to begin blocking Savita Bhabhi, a very popular website that features a comic strip about the sexual adventures of a married woman. N....
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 8:23am By Margaret WadeAn anchorite (or anchoress when a woman) in Catholic history was a person who was contained in a cell attached to a church. She spent her days in prayer. Townspeople brought her food, because once she was walled in, she never left her cell. She...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 4:59pm By Tim McElreavyBollywood actress Sherlyn Chopra, better known for her body and revealing costumes than her artistic talent, has refused to appear in an Indian condom advertisement. While the young star of such films as Dosti, Raqueeb, and Naughty Boy has...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 12:33pm By Chris HallMeena Seshu writes on RHRealityCheck that Indian sex workers, after much hard work, have scored a victory by helping to defeat an amendment to the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Bill that would have crimialized the clients of sex workers: The bill...
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