Raipur: Ravina Biraha is a transgender who refused to live on the fringes and is fighting for dignity for her community. The taunts, the jeers and the humiliation, Biraha has experienced it all. But she prefers to define herself as the third gender.
"People still believe that there are only two genders in the society. When they see somebody from the third gender, they starting behaving differently. And that affects us. My family started discriminating me when they learnt I was a transgender," said Biraha.
Biraha chose to fight back at an early age. She left her village and family in Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund district, studied at a free boarding school and did her graduation. While working at a local newspaper office, she got in touch with others from her community and formed the Chhattisgarh Mitwa Sankalp Samity in 2010.
"We discovered our community has a lot of potential. We thought that needs to be developed and conserved. Mitwa aims to help in overall development of our community," Biraha said....
more
10:09 AM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Rejecting the possibility of a third front coming to power after the next Lok Sabha polls, BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said the very idea is a "tried and failed experiment" which will never become a reality. He said regional parties cannot claim themselves as an alternative. "There is no possibility of a third front in the country. The idea of a third front is a tried...
03:05 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat has ruled out any possibility of his party supporting a Congress-led government at the Centre. Speaking to CNN-IBN National Bureau Chief Bhupendra Chaubey, the CPI(M) leader said there was a high possibility that a Third Front would be formed ahead of the next Lok Sabha elections. Here is the transcript of an excerpt from the interview: Bhupendra Chaubey: In...
10:26 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Leaving no scope for the BJP to duck the issue, the Janata Dal (United), one of its key allies, demanded that the party announce its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general election by year-end. It also added that the candidate should have 'secular credentials'. But former ally, Odisha Chief Minister and BJD Leader Naveen Patnaik, ruled out giving any help to the BJP in its hour of crisis. Reflecting ...
02:13 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Bangalore: The ruling BJP on Sunday night released its third list with 37 candidates for the May 5, 2013 Assembly polls but still has not taken a call about three tainted MLAs, keeping the suspense factor alive. The BJP had announced its first list of 140 candidates on April 5, 2013 and subsequently released a set of 35 nominees. With Sunday's 37, it has named candidates in 212 segments. It's...
07:37 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Sharad Yadav is all set to score a hat-trick as JD(U) President as the party prepares for the Lok Sabha polls scheduled for 2014. Yadav is the only candidate to have filed nomination for the party chief's election scheduled on April 14 and his continuation at the helm is now a foregone conclusion. Tuesday was the last day for filing the nomination. Yadav accompanied by a number of...
03:16 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Nagpur: Union Minister and NCP president Sharad Pawar on Sunday ruled out the formation of a Third Front for the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. "There is no possibility of a Third Front as talked about by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh," Pawar, who is the Union minister for Agriculture, told reporters at Wardha near Nagpur. When asked about his recent meeting with Mulayam Singh, Pawar said that not much...
02:30 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh met his party MLAs and MPs in Lucknow on Saturday. The meet was held to review the progress on 2014 Lok Sabha election preparations. Earlier, meeting of the presidents of district and city units were also held. The Samajwadi Party has declared candidates on 71 Lok Sabha seats. Meanwhile, party leader Ram Ashrey Khushwaha did not ruled out the possibility of a Third Front...
02:47 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Patna: Lok Janshakti Party chief Ramvilas Paswan on Friday ruled out any possibility of a third front ahead or after the next Lok Sabha polls, and instead called out all secular parties to join hands against the BJP. "There is no possibility of a third front before or after next Lok Sabha polls. Different political parties have different views on its formation," Paswan told media persons in Bihar's Darbhanga district...
05:30 AM, Apr 06, 2013
While Mulayam Singh continues to stay enthusiastic about his idea of forming the Third Front in the upcoming general elections, the BJP has dismissed his remarks saying it is not even a possibility. BJP President Rajnath Singh, upon being questioned about the Third Front, said, "The Third Front has never been successful in this country. It will never come to power." ...
10:04 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Stewart Cink shot a 4-under 68 in the penultimate round to share a four-shot lead with Bill Haas. ...
08:32 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Ruling out the possibility of formation of a third front, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday said such a coalition has no future. "Opportunist coalition or manipulation of power cannot solve any of the problems existing in the country," Joshi said. ...
05:31 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has made it clear that he won't withdraw support to the UPA government as he cannot support 'communal parties', but added that the Congress itself will go for elections this year itself. Speaking exclusively to Network 18, Mulayam said, "We don't want the Bharatiya Janata Party and their allies to bring the government down. Why should we bring the government down for eight to...
01:01 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Against the backdrop of Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav raising the issue of a Third Front, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said he is watching the situation as it develops before taking a call on it. Asked about his views on the formation of a Third Front, Patnaik said, "We will have to wait and watch and see how these...
02:06 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has again raised the picth for a third front. Speaking at a rally in Etawah he said, "Congress is an opportunist. Whenever elections are around the congress, they first waiver off loans but after coming to power they cheat the poor farmers. Congress is a party that betrays everyone." But congress leader Digvijaya Singh played down Mulayam's remark by saying that he has the ...
09:05 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav hinted that a coalition government is the need of the country as the political scenario at the national level is favouring emergence of third front. ...
11:20 PM, Mar 26, 2013
As the Samajwadi Party chief urges regional parties to come together, speculations have started making rounds that he might be either preparing a Third Front or getting ready for early elections. As Mulayam prepares his strategy, he has to contend with many imponderables. There is a gaping trust deficit between the SP and the Left parties since Mulayam bailed the UPA out in 2008. ...
11:33 PM, Mar 25, 2013
The Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, while speaking at a rally in Sangli in Maharashtra on Sunday, signalled at the emergence of a third front and said time for single party government is over. This is the latest in the series of hints that Mulayam has been dropping of going against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). ...
08:29 AM, Mar 25, 2013
England are just one "crazy spell" away from getting right back in the series-deciding third Test against New Zealand on an otherwise placid Eden Park pitch, fast bowler Steven Finn said on Friday. ...
03:47 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The New South Wales batsman was batting on 58 at stumps on day two, with India needing three wickets to end Australia's first innings. ...
10:27 PM, Mar 15, 2013
