Sanjana Shankar

On 30th March 2026, the President of India gave her assent to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, passed by both houses of Parliament the previous week. The law governs how transgender persons are legally recognised and determines their access to identity documents, welfare schemes, and basic state services. Until now, the law allowed a person to be recognised as transgender based on self-identification, without requiring medical proof. The Amendment, in...

The first hands to touch Ashoka University each morning are not those of its students or professors, but of the didis  and bhaiyyas  who...

Singer Liam Payne’s life came to an end on October 16th, 2024 and across every major social media platform was a blitz of photos, videos, an