Articles by Gautam Bhan
Urban job schemes can recharge our cities and fight deep inequalities
India should focus on investing in urban social protection programs to address inequality and improve the lives of the bottom 50%.
Published on Aug 02, 2023 10:06 PM IST
Demolition cannot be the answer to encroachment
Data tells us that most housing in urban India is built in some degree of tension with the law. One study, by private consultancy FSG, uses census data to estimate that 33%-47% of housing in urban India is what they term informal. That’s one in every two or three houses
Updated on Jan 16, 2023 08:32 PM IST
Gautam Bhan
Affordable housing is the solution to urban inequality, exclusion
Delhi has, in the recent past, found land for large infrastructure projects, transport, stadiums and malls. Jahan jhuggi, vahan makaan is possible. The decision is not if it can be done but if we are willing to do it.
Updated on Sep 30, 2020 10:56 PM IST
Gautam Bhan
Excerpt: Essay on LGBT rights featured in Left, Right and Centre edited by Nidhi Razdan
In this essay, The (In)Dignity of our Sexualities, activist Gautam Bhan reiterates that queer politics is not just about the rights of LGBT people but about the larger fight against the patterns of entrenched hierarchy, prejudice and intolerance that continues to bedevil Indian society
Updated on Aug 19, 2017 11:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gautam Bhan
If some of us are unequal, then all of us are unequal
The SC has ignored its primary role as the protector and last resort of the bewildered and the oppressed.
Updated on Dec 11, 2013 11:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gautam Bhan and Arvind Narrain
Queer makes ‘normal’ feel less powerful
Sunday’s pride parade in Delhi comes at a moment in which many face an impossible choice: trading freedom for safety and dignity. This year, we must refuse this false separation, writes Gautam Bhan.
Updated on Nov 23, 2013 01:29 AM IST
Gautam Bhan
It's their world too
In Delhi, the rich have built illegal colonies, the poor unauthorised bastis. Why is it then that only the former has got relief from the government, asks Gautam Bhan.
Updated on Sep 17, 2012 01:35 AM IST
None | Gautam Bhan
The policing of desire
Today is the third anniversary of the Naz judgement. The Supreme Court should not overrule it and must uphold the rights of the LGBT community, writes Gautam Bhan.
Updated on Jul 12, 2012 01:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gautam Bhan
Silence as sedition
Binayak Sen's actions represent what makes India democratic, and his conviction shows the deep fragility of our democracy today. If you wish to protect the nation-State, it is Sen you must protect, writes Gautam Bhan.
Updated on May 23, 2011 10:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gautam Bhan
Fighting the odds
That Siras had to undergo trauma, fear, harassment and humiliation in his own university in what would turn out to be his last weeks is condemnable. If these events and that trauma are in any way linked to his death, then all actors involved must be held culpable.
Updated on Apr 08, 2010 10:51 PM IST
None | Deepti Sharma, Anjali Gopalan, Gautam Bhan and others
Section 377 is unnatural
The Supreme Court decision to address the issue of the law against homosexuals has finally challenged our unwillingness to talk about sex and sexuality.
Published on Feb 09, 2006 05:28 AM IST
None | Gautam Bhan