Talking Queer Feminist Rights With Delhi’s Nazariya Foundation
After the parents of California resident Shivy Bhat learnt that their 19-year-old teenager was a trans man, they flew him to their hometown of Agra in India, confiscated his documents and electronic devices, and kept him under house arrest in...
The Main Bazaar in Delhi’s Paharganj: Digital Images of the Organised Chaos
The Main Bazaar in Paharganj, an area of Central Delhi located right next to New Delhi Railway Station, is one of the freakiest spots on Earth, and one doesn’t need to have visited all such zones to understand that. “Organised...
Humanising Delhi’s Homeless: An Interview With Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan’s Param Jeet Kaur
As Gagan approaches, she proudly announces that she’s currently doing a Bachelor of Arts at Delhi University. It’s not what one would necessarily expect to hear from a 19-year-old homeless woman living in a shelter for women in Delhi’s Karol...
The Offence of Importing a Commercial Quantity of Border Controlled Drugs into Australia
In an operation involving law enforcement agencies from several countries, a commercial quantity of liquid methamphetamine concealed in containers marked as ‘A Be Coco Coconut Water’ and allegedly headed for New South Wales has been seized in Hong Kong. ...
Land of the Gods: Nepalese Hindu Deities in Pictures
If ever a visitor in Nepal, one should be mindful that if you appear to be the first customer on entering a shop early morning, your subsequent actions have consequences for the rest of the store owner’s day. If you...
“Birds Without Wings”: Undocumented Tibetans Refugees in Nepal Await Return Home
Being a majority Buddhist people, Tibetans well understand the concept of impermanence, or the temporary nature of all things. And at Tashiling, a permanent Tibetan settlement in Nepal that grew out of a short-term refugee camp, the temporary still reigns...
All Your Daily Needs on Offer in the Kathmandu Streets: In Photos
With a population of just over 29 million, Nepal is a country of extensive diversity: it’s multiethnic, multicultural, multireligious and multilinguistic. Nepal contains eight of the highest mountains in the world, including the highest point on Earth, Mount Everest, as...
As Street Dog Care in Kathmandu Grows, Community Attitude to Strays Is Shifting
If you ever find yourself in the forecourt of the Boudhanath Stupa, a revered Buddhist monument located on the northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu city at about noon on a Saturday, you’re likely to come across a rainbow-coloured beach umbrella, with...
Labor Says “F#*K Off We’re Full” to Medevac Refugees, After a Decade of Torture
The Liberal Nationals government tortured and imprisoned thousands of the planet’s most desperate people in facilities built on the soil of poorer nations for years because they arrived in Australian waters by boat seeking asylum, which is completely legal under...
Privacy Watchdog and Media Regulator Launch Investigations into Optus
Many Australians feel that large corporations and their executives have gotten away with flouting the law without sufficient consequences for far too long. And the recent Optus data breach has certainly added to that sentiment - with 10 million current...
