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Grace Banu
Grace Banu is an Indian software engineer who is a Dalit and transgender activist. She was the first transgender person to be admitted to an engineering college in the state of Tamil Nadu. She lives in the Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu. Early life Banu was born and raised in Tuticorin district, Tamil Nadu. A Dalit, she says that from early in her schooldays she was not allowed to attend the regular hours of 9.30 am to 4 pm. Banu said she was in the eighth standard when she began to experience gender dysphoria. Other students were told that they would be punished if they interacted with her. This kind of untouchability, based on both her caste and gender identity, caused her to attempt suicide and give up on the idea of finishing school. Banu's family rejected her in 2008 when she told them of her gender identity. Banu was the first transgender person to be admitted to an engineering college in the state of Tamil Nadu, which she obtained through counselling at Anna Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Krishna College Of Engineering & Technology
Sri Krishna College of Engineering & Technology (SKCET) is a private technical institution affiliated to Anna University based on Coimbatore. It is located in a twenty-acre campus at Sugunapuram along the Palakkad-Coimbatore Highway, near Kuniyamuthur, Coimbatore in Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The college was started in 1998 with 180 students and 18 staff and offered four courses in the Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.). Qualifications are conferred by Anna University. At present, the college has more than 2,500 students and more than 200 teaching and non-teaching staff. Rankings It was ranked 77th by the NIRF among engineering institutions in 2023. Ranked 4th out of 5 Private College, Private/Self Financed/Technical College, Colleges/University, Universities in 2021 in Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA). Campus The campus is about 8 km from the city of Coimbatore. The facilities include classrooms with multimedia equipment/overhead projecto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transgender Persons (Protection Of Rights) Act, 2019
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 is an act of the Parliament of India with the objective to provide for protection of rights of transgender people, their welfare, and other related matters. The act was introduced in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament, on 19 July 2019 by the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Thawar Chand Gehlot, in light of the lapse of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2018 (Bill No. 210-C of 2016). The 2019 act and the immediately preceding 2018 bill, were both preceded by a 2016 version. They were met with protests and criticism by some transgender people, lawyers, and activists in India. The 2016 bill was sent to a standing committee which submitted its report in July 2017. Following this, the Lok Sabha tabled and passed a newer version of the bill in December 2018. However, it did not incorporate many of the committee's recommendations. Although members of the opposition criticised the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transgender Rights In Tamil Nadu
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Tamil Nadu are the most progressive among all states of India. Tamil Nadu was the first state in India to introduce a transgender welfare policy, wherein transgender individuals can access free gender affirmation surgery in government hospitals and various other benefits and rights. The state was also the first to ban forced sex-selective surgeries on intersex infants, and also the first state to include an amendment in its state police guidelines that expects officers to abstain from harassing the LGBTQIA+ community and its members. The state also became the first to ban conversion therapy and the first to introduce LGBTQIA+ issues in school curricula. Same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 2018, following the Supreme Court ruling in ''Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India''. Tamil Nadu is noted as one of the most open states with regards to the LGBT community, particularly transgender people. Nevertheless, rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rights Of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014
The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014 is a proposed Act of the Parliament of India which seeks to end the discrimination faced by transgender people in India. The Bill was passed by the upper house Rajya Sabha on 24 April 2015. It was introduced in the lower house Lok Sabha on 26 February 2016. History The Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Tiruchi Siva as a private member's bill. Some Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders initially tried to convince Siva to withdraw the bill citing anomalies and impractical clauses. Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thawar Chand Gehlot said that some clauses of the bill were impractical and too complicated. He promised future policies to benefit transgender people, while requesting the Bill to be withdrawn. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, and P. J. Kurien of Indian National Congress (INC) also made similar requests. However, Siva refused to withdr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living Smile Vidya
Living Smile Vidya, or Smiley, is an Indian trans woman actor, assistant director, writer, and trans and Dalit rights activist from Chennai. Early life She described her family as belonging to the Arunthatiyar caste in Andhra Pradesh, migrating to Chennai several generations ago. Her mother, a Dalit woman, worked as a street cleaner, in addition to domestic work. As a child, she described herself as being "a woman in my heart…even as I was being given male privilege.…I was mistaken to be male and couldn’t yet articulate that I was a girl and so I was educated much more than my sisters." In a 2013 interview, Smiley traces the roots of her public art and activism to her realization that "since all women get oppressed under patriarchy, and trans women and dalit women through the combined might of patriarchy with casteism and transphobia, I might as well have a loud mouth and be assertive than take everything silently – to be a strong but silent woman was not enough." Vid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Dalits
Following is a list of notable Dalit people organised by profession, field, or focus. Academics *B.R. Ambedkar, economist and reformer * Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation *Narendra Jadhav, economist, writer and educationist *Satyendra Murli, researcher, media pedagogue and journalist *Sukhadeo Thorat, economist and Padma Shri recipient Cinema and television * Chirag Paswan, actor and politician * Kalabhavan Mani, actor and singer * Pa. Ranjith, director and filmmaker * P.K. Rosy, first heroine in Malayalam cinema * Tun Tun, actress and comedian of Hindi cinema * Neeraj Ghaywan, director * Nagraj Manjule, director Activists * Anand Teltumbde * Ayyankali, Indian social reformer * Gopal Baba Walangkar * Immanuvel Sekaran * Kuyili, freedom fighter and Commander in Chief of Velu Nachiyar * Meena Kandaswamy, poet and Dalit activist *Rettamalai Srinivasan *Uda Devi, freedom fighter Politicians Presidents *K. R. Narayanan, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi (known as Laxmi, sometimes transliterated as Lakshmi) is a transgender/Hijra rights activist, bollywood actress, Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer and motivational speaker in Mumbai, India. She is also the Acharya Mahamandaleshwar of kinnar akhada. She was born in Malti Bai Hospital on 13th Dec 1978 in Thane. She is the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific in the UN in 2008. At the assembly, she spoke of the plight of sexual minorities. "People should be more human-like. They should respect us as humans and consider our rights as transgenders," she said. She was a contestant on the popular reality show ''Bigg Boss'' in 2011. Her efforts helped the first Transgender team to scale a Himalayan peak (Friendship peak) in 2020. Early life Laxmi was the eldest born who was assigned male at birth into an orthodox Brahmin family in Thane, Maharashtra. After completing her schooling at Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School Thane, she acquired an arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBT Rights In India
; ne, हिजडा; Marathi: हिजडा). In Telugu, they are referred to as ( నపుంసకుడు) or (హిజ్రా), in Urdu as ( ہیجڑا), in Gujarati as (પાવૈયા) or ( હીજડા), in Tamil as '' aravani'' (), in Punjabi as ( ਖੁਸਰਾ), in Odia as (ହିଂଜଡା), in Sindhi as ( کدڙا), in Malayalam as (ഷണ്ഡന്) or ( ഹിജഡ), in Kannada as ( ಚಕ್ಕ), in Konkani as ''khojji'' (), in Manipuri as , in Kashmiri as ''napumsakh'' (), in Assamese as ''npunnsk'' (), in Santali as ''cakra'' (), in Sanskrit as ''klība'' (), ''napumsa'' () or ''shandha'' (), and in Mizo as . In English language publications, these terms are given to eunuchs, intersex people or transgender people. ''Hijras'' were legally granted voting rights as a third sex in 1994. Due to alleged legal ambiguity of the procedure, Indian transgender individuals have difficulties accessing safe medical facilities fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madras High Court
The Madras High Court is a High Court in India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is located in Chennai, and is the third oldest high court of India after the Calcutta High Court in Kolkata and Bombay High Court in Mumbai. The Madras High Court is one of three high courts of colonial India established in the three Presidency Towns of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta by letters patent granted by Queen Victoria, dated 26 June 1862. It exercises original jurisdiction over the city of Chennai, as well as extraordinary original jurisdiction, civil and criminal, under the letters patent and special original jurisdiction for the issue of writs under the Constitution of India. Covering 107 acres, the court complex is one of the largest in the world, second only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The High Court consists of 74 judges and a chief justice. History From 1817 to 1862, the Supreme Court of Madras was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siddha Medicine
Siddha medicine is a form of traditional medicine originating in southern India. It is one of the oldest systems of medicine in India. In rural India, have learned methods traditionally through master-disciple relationships to become local "healers". are among an estimated 400,000 traditional healers practicing medicine in India, comprising some 57% of rural medical care. Siddha practitioners believe that five basic elements – earth, water, fire, air, sky – are in food, "humours" of the human body, and herbal, animal or inorganic chemical compounds, such as sulfur and mercury, used as therapies for treating diseases. The Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy of the Government of India regulates training in Siddha medicine and other traditional practices grouped collectively as AYUSH. Practitioners are called ( in Tamil), and may have formal training with advanced degrees, such as BSMS (Bachelor in Siddha Medicine and Surgery), M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Indian census, Chennai is the sixth-most populous city in the country and forms the fourth-most populous urban agglomeration. The Greater Chennai Corporation is the civic body responsible for the city; it is the oldest city corporation of India, established in 1688—the second oldest in the world after London. The city of Chennai is coterminous with Chennai district, which together with the adjoining suburbs constitutes the Chennai Metropolitan Area, the 36th-largest urban area in the world by population and one of the largest metropolitan economies of India. The traditional and de facto gateway of South India, Chennai is among the most-visited Indian cities by foreign tourists. It was ranked the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brahminism
The historical Vedic religion (also known as Vedicism, Vedism or ancient Hinduism and subsequently Brahmanism (also spelled as Brahminism)), constituted the religious ideas and practices among some Indo-Aryan peoples of northwest Indian Subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE). These ideas and practices are found in the Vedic texts, and some Vedic rituals are still practiced today. It is one of the major traditions which shaped Hinduism, though present-day Hinduism is markedly different from the historical Vedic religion. The Vedic religion developed in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent during the early Vedic period (1500–1100 BCE), but has roots in the Eurasian Steppe Sintashta culture (2200–1800 BCE), the subsequent Central Asian Andronovo culture (2000–900 BCE), and the Indus Valley civilization (2600–1900 BCE). It was a composite of the religion of the Central Asian Indo-Aryans, itself "a syncreti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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