Giti thadani biography definition

          Giti Tadani is a researcher, writer, visual artist and was a founding member of the first Indian lesbian archive, Sakhi....

          I was born in Delhi, Went to a typical convent school there.

        1. This unique book presents fascinating perspectives on contemporary lesbian life in India and unravels some of the history of lesbian desire from centuries past.
        2. Giti Tadani is a researcher, writer, visual artist and was a founding member of the first Indian lesbian archive, Sakhi.
        3. Giti Thadani is a native of India, a lesbian activist and a scholar who has explored the back-roads and byways of India and of Indian thought.
        4. About the Author.

          5. The way we were

          In the winter of 1987, two policewomen in Madhya Pradesh hit the headlines for the unlikeliest of reasons: They were in love.

          Leela Ramdeo and Urmila Srivastava met on the job, fallen for each other, and decided to get married.

          They gathered a few friends and went to a temple in Sagar town, exchanged vows and took turns to place a garland of flowers around each other’s necks in a “gandharva” marriage ritual presided over by a priest.

          After the ceremony, the two women went to a local studio for a customary wedding photo.

          A few days later, they were back at work.

          But wedded bliss was not theirs to be. A photo of the ceremony was leaked, some say by a co-worker, and the police moved swiftly to fire and imprison them, because they were apparently a bad influence to other women at work.

          The women eventually fled to Srivastava’s ancestral village.

          But through this ordeal, many friends and local people stood by them even as a nationwide debate raged on the “immoral