Noorie, the head of a non-governmental organisation that has more than 1,500 members, is Auntie Noorie to some, Ayah (Grandma) to some others and just Amma to many others. She has devoted her entire ...

Every year, thousands celebrate the Aravani festival in the sleepy town of Koovagam, Tamil Nadu, where the presiding deity is Lord Aravan – the virgin son of the Pandava prince, Arjun. According to ...

But the Aravani Art project is changing perceptions -- one public art work at a time. Nikita Puri reports. IMAGE: The Aravani Art Project is a Bengaluru-based initiative that uses public art to create ...

For nine years, the Bengaluru-based trans and cis women art collective Aravani Art Project has been using murals as a tool to bring visibility around discrimination against transgender and gender ...

Almost a decade ago, a group of transwomen painted a mural in Bengaluru’s bustling K.R Market, beginning their journey of talking about inclusivity and equality through art. Today, their artworks are ...

Block 107 is an unlovely terracotta-and-yellow building tinselled with sagging cable wires, located at the very edge of the Tsunami quarters at Ernavur, Chennai. A slate-grey wall separates it from ...

Poornima Sukumar and Sadhna Prasad are covered in a Jackson Pollockesque splatter of paint. They are a little drained but find time for banter and laughter, among themselves and the rotating roster of ...

NEW DELHI: As part of its Pride Month 2025 celebration, the Instituto Cervantes in Delhi unveiled a collaborative mural created by the Aravani Art Project, in partnership with the Naz Foundation. The ...

The Tamils’ equation with transgendered persons was one of allowance. And for a people politically indoctrinated to reject religion, the gods have been kind to the transsexuals in Tamil Nadu. They ...