Kaushik Ganguly’s Nagarkirtan (2018): A Reality in Motion
The desire of a queer person to be loved and have a family is well portrayed in the film. Kaushik Ganguly brings another magnanimous art for cinegoers, almost like a reality in motion.
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This Bengali Movie Has An Offensive, Misinformed Portrayal of Trans Issues
Why does the director feel that she has a right to make herself the voice of this community and take away our agency? Which hijra house has a bai-ji covered with diamonds and pearls like she’s stuck in some kind of mughal-e-azam?
Watch: Trailer of Upcoming Bengali Movie about a Gender Queer Actress
“Conditions Apply” depicts the life of an actress who identifies herself as “gender neutral”; an individual who exists outside the binary gender structure of male and female.
This new series is about a Sikh Guy, a gay Bengali and Two women staying in a Virgin House
Web series are making a splash in India. After the TVF web-series (Permanent Roommates and Pitchers), we have a new web-series titled Virgin House. The cardinal... Read More...
Movie Review: Nirbashito (Bengali, 2015)
Churni Ganguly has already been a proven actress. This time she makes her directorial debut, with her film, ‘Nirbashito’, based on Taslima Nasreen’s banishmen... Read More...
Book Review: Don’t Let Him Know by Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy’s debut novel Don’t Let Him Know by Bloomsbury is a family saga spread across two generations and continents. The novel tells the story of a Bengal... Read More...
Bangladesh’s first LGBTQI magazine launched
Roopbaan's inaugural cover
In a significant step forward for sexual minorities in Bangladesh, the country's first LGBTQI Bengali-language magazine 'Ro... Read More...