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Abdullah Kadwani
Abdullah Kadwani (Urdu) is a Pakistani actor, producer and director.
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Abid Ali (actor)
Abid Ali (born 1952) is a Pakistani television actor who has acted in numerous television productions in Pakistan and India Bollywood.
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Amar Akbar Anthony
Amar Akbar Anthony is a 1977 Indian action comedy film, directed and produced by Manmohan Desai.
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American College, Madurai
The American College, often referred to as American College, is one of the oldest colleges present in India.
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Anil Kapoor
Anil Kapoor (born 24 December 1956) is an Indian actor and producer who has appeared in many Hindi-language films, as well as international films and television series.
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Appu (2000 film)
Appu is a 2000 Tamil romantic thriller film directed by Vasanth.
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Ardhanaari
Ardhanaari (2012) is a Malayalam film about the life of transgender people in Kerala.
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Ardhanarishvara
Ardhanarishwara (अर्धनारीश्वर) is a composite androgynous form of the Hindu God Shiva and his consort Parvati (also known as Devi, Shakti and Uma in this icon).
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Arundhati Roy
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.
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Atif Aslam
Atif Aslam (born 12 March 1983) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter and actor.
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Ayodhya
Ayodhya (IAST Ayodhyā), also known as Saketa, is an ancient city of India, believed to be the birthplace of Rama and setting of the epic Ramayana.
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Bahuchara Mata
Bahuchara Mata is a Hindu goddess of chastity and fertility and an incarnation of Shakti.
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Bangle
Bangles are rigid bracelets, usually from metal, wood, glass or plastic.
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BBC Three
BBC Three was a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.
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Bol (film)
Bol (lit. Speak or word(s)) is a 2011 Pakistani Urdu language social drama film written, directed and produced by Shoaib Mansoor.
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Bombay (film)
Bombay is a 1995 Indian Tamil-language Indian romantic drama film directed by Mani Ratnam, starring Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala in the lead, and featuring music composed by A. R. Rahman.
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Bombay Hindi
Bombay Hindi, also known as Bambaiya Hindi, Mumbaiyya, or Bombay Hindi-Urdu, is the variety of Hindi-Urdu (Hindustani) spoken in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India.
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Bride and Prejudice
Bride and Prejudice is a 2004 romantic drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.
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Caste
Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a lifestyle which often includes an occupation, status in a hierarchy, customary social interaction, and exclusion.
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Cengage
Cengage is an educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education, K-12, professional, and library markets worldwide.
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Cinema of India
The Cinema of India consists of films produced in the nation of India.
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Comic relief
Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character, scene, or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension.
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Contributions to Indian Sociology
Contributions to Indian Sociology is a Peer reviewed academic journal which has encouraged and fostered cutting-edge scholarship on South Asian societies and cultures over the last 50 years.
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Criminal Tribes Act
The term Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) refers to various pieces of legislation enforced in India during British rule; the first enacted in 1871 as the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871 applied mostly in North India.
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Cross-dressing
Cross-dressing is the act of wearing items of clothing and other accoutrements commonly associated with the opposite sex within a particular society.
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Darmiyaan: In Between
Darmiyaan: In Between is a 1997 Indian film starring Arif Zakaria, Tabu and Kiron Kher.
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Delhi
Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.
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Delhi: A Novel
Delhi: A Novel (published 1990) is a historical novel by Indian writer Khushwant Singh.
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Denotified Tribes
Denotified Tribes (DNTs), also known as Vimukta Jati, are the tribes that were originally listed under the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871, as "Criminal Tribes" and "addicted to the systematic commission of non-bailable offences." Once a tribe became "notified" as criminal, all its members were required to register with the local magistrate, failing which they would be charged with a "crime" under the Indian Penal Code.
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Emasculation
Emasculation of a human male is the removal of the penis and the testicles, the external male sex organs.
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Eunuch
The term eunuch (εὐνοῦχος) generally refers to a man who has been castrated, typically early enough in his life for this change to have major hormonal consequences.
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Fellatio
Fellatio (also known as fellation, and in slang as blowjob, BJ, giving head, or sucking off) is an oral sex act involving the use of the mouth or throat, which is usually performed by a person on the penis of another person.
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Frontline (magazine)
Frontline is a fortnightly English language magazine published by The Hindu Group of publications from Chennai, India.
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Galli
A Gallus (pl. Galli) was a eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her consort Attis, whose worship was incorporated into the state religious practices of ancient Rome.
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Gender identities in Thailand
In Thailand, as elsewhere, one can find several different gender roles, identities and diverse visual markers of masculinity and femininity.
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Gender taxonomy
The gender taxonomy is a classification of the range of different levels at which humans vary in sexual characteristics.
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Glbtq.com
glbtq.com was an online encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) culture.
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Gopi Shankar Madurai
Gopi Shankar Madurai (கோபி ஷங்கர் மதுரை, born 13 April 1991) is an Indian equal rights and Indigenous rights activist.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO.
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Gujarat
Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India with an area of, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million.
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Gujarati language
Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat.
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Gurinder Chadha
Gurinder Chadha, (born 10 January 1960) is an English film director of Kenyan Asian origin.
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Guru
Guru (गुरु, IAST: guru) is a Sanskrit term that connotes someone who is a "teacher, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.
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Habibi (graphic novel)
Habibi is a graphic novel by Craig Thompson published by Pantheon in September 2011.
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Hermaphrodite
In biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has complete or partial reproductive organs and produces gametes normally associated with both male and female sexes.
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Hijra Farsi
Hijra Farsi (Urdu) is a secret language spoken by South-Asian hijra and koti communities.
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Hindi
Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.
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Hindustani language
Hindustani (हिन्दुस्तानी, ہندوستانی, ||lit.
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Homosexuality in India
Homosexuality is mostly a taboo subject in Indian civil society and for the government.
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Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (تنظیم حقوق انسانی پاکستان), or HRCP, is an independent, non-profit organisation, founded in 1987, which is not associated or with the government or any political party.Among its main aims are spreading awareness of human rights among the people,collecting information and spreading knowledge about human rights abuses, and to monitor and defend human rights in Pakistan.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Humayun Saeed
Humayun Saeed (born Humayun Saeed Ansari: 27 July 1971) is a Pakistani film/television actor and producer.
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Hyderabad
Hyderabad is the capital of the Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh.
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Immaculate Conception (film)
Immaculate Conception is a 1992 film written and directed by British director Jamil Dehlavi with James Wilby, Melissa Leo and Shabana Azmi playing the lead roles.
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Indian Police Service
The Indian Police Service (Bhāratīya Pulis Sevā) or IPS, is an All India Service for policing.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indus Telefilm Festival
The Indus Telefilm Festival was a Pakistani film festival held in 2003.
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Indus TV
INDUS TV is a Pakistani satellite television network offered for international subscribers by the Indus Entertainment (Private) Limited.
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Intentional community
An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.
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Intersex
Intersex people are born with any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies".
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Ippadikku Rose
Ippadikku Rose (இப்படிக்கு ரோஸ்; Yours truly, Rose) is a Tamil talk show aired on Vijay TV.
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Iravan
Also, refer to Barbarika, whose story is very similar Iravan, also known as Iravat and Iravant, is a minor character from the Hindu epic of Mahabharata.
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Jagdeep
Jagdeep (born as Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jafri on 29 March 1939) is an Indian film actor and comedian who has appeared in more than 400 films.
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Jamil Dehlavi
Jamil Dehlavi (جمیل دہلوی) (born 1944) is a London-based independent film director and producer of Pakistani-French origin.
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Jogwa
Jogwa - The Awakening (जोगवा) is a National Film Award-winning 2009 Marathi film directed by Rajiv Patil and produced under iDream Productions & Screenplay by Sanjay Krishnaji Patil.
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher in social sciences and humanities with its head office in Amsterdam.
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John Money
John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006) was a psychologist, sexologist and author, specializing in research into sexual identity and biology of gender.
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Johnny Lever
Johnny Lever (born 14 August 1957) is an Indian film actor and one of the most noted comedians in Hindi cinema.
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Journal of Homosexuality
The Journal of Homosexuality is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research into sexual practices and gender roles in their cultural, historical, interpersonal, and modern social contexts.
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Kali
(काली), also known as (कालिका), is a Hindu goddess.
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Kalpana Lajmi
Kalpana Lajmi (born. 1954) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.
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Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra (कामसूत्र) is an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana.
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Kamran Qureshi
Kamran Qureshi (born 3 October 1975) is a filmmaker and television director/producer.
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Karachi
Karachi (کراچی; ALA-LC:,; ڪراچي) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh.
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Kathoey
Kathoey or katoey (กะเทย) is a transgender woman or an effeminate gay male in Thailand.
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Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh (born Khushal Singh, 15 August 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician.
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Kochi
Kochi, also known as Cochin, is a major port city on the south-west coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea.
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Kolkata
Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Koovagam
Koovagam is a village in the Ulundurpettai taluk in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu.
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Kothi (gender)
A kothi or koti, in the culture of the Indian subcontinent, is an effeminate man or boy who takes on a female gender role in same sex relationships, often with a desire to be the penetrated member in sexual intercourse.
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Krishna
Krishna (Kṛṣṇa) is a major deity in Hinduism.
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Kunwara Baap (1974 film)
Kunwara Baap is a 1974 Hindi film produced by Amarlal Chabria and directed by and starring Mehmood.
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Kurukshetra War
The Kurukshetra War, also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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Ladyboys (film)
Ladyboys is a 1992 documentary film about the struggle of two teenage kathoey, or Thai male-to-female transgender persons, to leave the rural countryside and become famous performers in the glamorous cabarets of Pattaya.
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Larkana
Larkana (لاڑکانہ; لاڙڪاڻو) is a city in the north-west of the Sindh province of Pakistan, where the historic Indus River flows in south of the city.
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LGBT
LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
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LGBT rights in Pakistan
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Pakistan are considered taboo.
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LGBT rights in Tamil Nadu
LGBTI rights in Tamil Nadu varies from the rights for the gay lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex community Transgender people in Tamil Nadu are called Thirunar, Thirunangai (for transfeminine people) and Thirunambi (for transmasculine people).
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List of transgender-related topics
The term transgender is multi-faceted and complex, especially where consensual and precise definitions have not yet been reached.
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Lobbying
Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies.
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Lux Style Awards
The Lux Style Awards is the largest award ceremony held annually in Pakistan since 2002.
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Madras Bashai
Madras Bashai (Madras slang) is a pidgin language or a dialect of Tamil language heavily influenced by Indian English, Telugu, Urdu and Hindi language spoken in the city of Chennai (previously known as Madras) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu; it is not mutually intelligible with any of those except for Tamil, to a certain extent.
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Mahesh Bhatt
Mahesh Bhatt (born 20 September 1948) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his works exclusively in Hindi cinema.
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Malayalam
Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken across the Indian state of Kerala by the Malayali people and it is one of 22 scheduled languages of India.
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Manoj K. Jayan
Manoj Kadampoothramadam Jayan (born 15 March 1966), popularly known as Manoj K. Jayan, is an Indian actor who predominantly acts in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu films.
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Maria Wasti
Maria Wasti (born on Aug 14, 1980) is a Pakistani film, television actress and host.
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Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word (or simply Word) is a word processor developed by Microsoft.
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Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She is a 2005 American television documentary film by Antony Thomas.
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Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is a Government of India ministry.
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Moorat
Moorat (مورت) is a TV serial, the English title is Eunuch's Wedding which premiered on ARY Digital.
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Murad
Murad (مراد) or variants Murat, Mourad, Morad and Mrad is an Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Kurdish, Persian and Pakistani male given name and is commonly used throughout the Muslim and Arabic worlds.
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Murad (film)
Murad, also known as Eunuch's Motherhood, is an Urdu/Hindi language television drama film directed by Kamran Qureshi, written by Zafar Mairaj and produced by Iram Qureshi.
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Muxe
In Zapotec cultures of Oaxaca (southern Mexico), a muxe (also spelled muxhe) is an assigned male at birth individual who dresses and behaves in ways otherwise associated with the female gender; they may be seen as a third gender.
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Nabeel (actor)
Nabeel (نبیل‎;born Nadeem Zafar) is a Pakistani television actor, director and writer.
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National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)
National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel and also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by National Geographic Partners, majority-owned by 21st Century Fox with the remainder owned by the National Geographic Society.
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National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India
National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of India, which declared transgender people to be a 'third gender', affirmed that the fundamental rights granted under the Constitution of India will be equally applicable to transgender people, and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender as male, female or third-gender.This judgement is a major step towards gender equality in India.
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Nayak (2001 Hindi film)
Nayak: The Real Hero is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language political thriller film directed by S. Shankar and starring Anil Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal and Johnny Lever in the lead roles.
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Non-governmental organization
Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.
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Nullo (body modification)
The term nullo (or smoothie) refers to an extreme body modification subculture made up mostly of men who have had their genitals (and sometimes also their nipples) surgically removed.
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Odia language
Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) (formerly romanized as Oriya) is a language spoken by 4.2% of India's population.
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Other Backward Class
Other Backward Class (OBC) is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify castes which are socially or educationally or economically disadvantaged.
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Outsourced (TV series)
Outsourced is an American television sitcom set in an Indian workplace.
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Pakistan
Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.
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Pakistani English
Pakistani English or Paklish is the group of English language varieties spoken and written in Pakistan.
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Pandava
In the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic text, the Pandavas are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu, by his two wives Kunti and Madri, who was the princess of Madra.
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Paresh Rawal
Paresh Rawal (born 30 May 1955) is an Indian film actor, thespian and politician known for his works notably in Bollywood.
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Parvati
Parvati (Sanskrit: पार्वती, IAST: Pārvatī) or Uma (IAST: Umā) is the Hindu goddess of fertility, love and devotion; as well as of divine strength and power.
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Passport
A passport is a travel document, usually issued by a country's government, that certifies the identity and nationality of its holder primarily for the purpose of international travel.
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Patna
Patna is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India.
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Pooja Bhatt
Pooja Bhatt (born 24 February 1972) is an indian film director, actress, voice over artist, model and film maker.
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Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj (born Prakash Rai; 26 March 1965) is an Indian film actor, film director, producer, thespian and television presenter who is known for his works in the South Indian film industry, and Hindi films.
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
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Punjabi language
Punjabi (Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ; Shahmukhi: پنجابی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over 100 million native speakers worldwide, ranking as the 10th most widely spoken language (2015) in the world.
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Qazi Wajid
Qazi Wajid (قاضی واجد May 26, 1930 – February 11, 2018) was a Pakistani actor.
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Quaid-i-Azam University
The Quaid-i-Azam University (جامعہ قائداعظم; simply QAU) is a public research university in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Raghubir Yadav
Raghubir Yadav (also credited as Raghuvir Yadav; रघुवीर यादव) is an Indian film, stage and television actor, music composer, singer and set designer.
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Rama
Rama or Ram (Sanskrit: राम, IAST: Rāma), also known as Ramachandra, is a major deity of Hinduism.
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Ramayana
Ramayana (रामायणम्) is an ancient Indian epic poem which narrates the struggle of the divine prince Rama to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana.
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Renuka
Reṇukā/Renuga/Renu is a Hindu goddess worshipped predominantly in the Indian states of Karanataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
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Rishi Kapoor
Rishi Kapoor (born 4 September 1952) is an Indian actor, director and producer known for his works in Hindi cinema.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Sadashiv Dattaray Amrapurkar (11 May 1950 – 3 November 2014) was an Indian actor, best known for his performances in Marathi and Hindi films in the period 1983 to 1999.
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Sangam literature
The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், Sanga ilakkiyam) is the ancient Tamil literature of the period in the history of ancient southern India (known as the Thamizhagam or the Tamilagam) spanning from c. 300 BCE to 300 CE.
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Semitic root
The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root).
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Sex work
Sex work is "the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation.
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Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.
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Shabnam Mausi
Shabnam "Mausi" Bano is (शबनम मौसी) ("Mausi" noun. Hindi - "Aunty") is the first transgender Indian or Hijra to be elected to public office.
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Shiva
Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव, IAST: Śiva, lit. the auspicious one) is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.
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Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian director and screenwriter.
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Sindhi language
Sindhi (سنڌي, सिन्धी,, ਸਿੰਧੀ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the historical Sindh region, spoken by the Sindhi people.
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Soorma Bhopali
Soorma Bhopali (सूरमा भोपाली), is a 1988 Hindi-language Indian feature film produced by Naved and directed by Jagdeep, who previously played Soorma Bhopali in the movie Sholay.
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South Asia
South Asia or Southern Asia (also known as the Indian subcontinent) is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east.
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Star Vijay
Star Vijay, commonly known as Vijay TV, is an Indian Tamil language general entertainment private broadcast television network that is owned by the Star India, a subsidiary of American multinational mass media corporation 21st Century Fox.
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Sufism
Sufism, or Taṣawwuf (personal noun: ṣūfiyy / ṣūfī, mutaṣawwuf), variously defined as "Islamic mysticism",Martin Lings, What is Sufism? (Lahore: Suhail Academy, 2005; first imp. 1983, second imp. 1999), p.15 "the inward dimension of Islam" or "the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam",Massington, L., Radtke, B., Chittick, W. C., Jong, F. de, Lewisohn, L., Zarcone, Th., Ernst, C, Aubin, Françoise and J.O. Hunwick, “Taṣawwuf”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by: P. Bearman, Th.
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Sukkur Division
Sukkur Division (سکر ڊويزن) is an administrative division of the Sindh Province of Pakistan.
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Sukumari
Sukumari (6 October 1940 – 26 March 2013) was an Indian film actress best known for her work in Malayalam and Tamil films.
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Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of constitutional review.
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Syncretism
Syncretism is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought.
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Synonym
A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.
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Taboo (2002 TV series)
Taboo is a documentary television series that premiered in 2002 on the National Geographic Channel.
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Tamanna (1997 film)
Tamanna (तमन्ना, translation: Desire) is a 1997 Indian drama film directed by Mahesh Bhatt.
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Tamil language
Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians.
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.
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Tamils
The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar, Tamilans, or simply Tamils, are a Dravidian ethnic group who speak Tamil as their mother tongue and trace their ancestry to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union territory of Puducherry, or the Northern, Eastern Province and Puttalam District of Sri Lanka.
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Tehsil
A tehsil (also known as a mandal, taluk, taluq or taluka) is an administrative division of some countries of South Asia.
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Television film
A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.
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Telugu language
Telugu (తెలుగు) is a South-central Dravidian language native to India.
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Thatta
Thatta (ٺٽو) is a city in the Pakistani province of Sindh.
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The Hindu Group
The Hindu Group is a publishing company located in Chennai.
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is the second novel by Indian writer Arundhati Roy, published in 2017, twenty years after her debut, The God of Small Things.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Thilakan
Surendranatha Thilakan (8 December 1933 – 24 September 2012) was an Indian film and stage actor who appeared in over 200 Malayalam films.
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Third gender
Third gender or third sex is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither man nor woman.
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Top, bottom and versatile
In human sexuality, top, bottom and versatile are sex positions during sexual activity, especially between two men.
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Transgender
Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.
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Transvestism
Transvestism is the practice of dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex.
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Two-spirit
Two-Spirit (also two spirit or, occasionally, twospirited) is a modern, pan-Indian, umbrella term used by some indigenous North Americans to describe certain people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) ceremonial role in their cultures.
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University of Alberta
The University of Alberta (also known as U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو ALA-LC:, or Modern Standard Urdu) is a Persianised standard register of the Hindustani language.
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Varanasi
Varanasi, also known as Benares, Banaras (Banāras), or Kashi (Kāśī), is a city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of North India, south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and east of Allahabad.
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Vasanth
Vasanth (வஸந்த்) is an Indian film director and screenwriter, working in the Tamil film industry.
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Viluppuram
Viluppuram() (also spelled as Villupuram and Vizhupuram) is a Municipality and the administrative headquarters of Viluppuram district, the largest district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
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Water (2005 film)
Water is a 2005 Indo-Canadian film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, with screenplay by Anurag Kashyap.
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Welcome to Sajjanpur
Welcome to Sajjanpur is a 2008 Indian Hindi comedy film directed by Shyam Benegal and starring Shreyas Talpade and Amrita Rao in the lead roles.
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Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.
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Zafar Mairaj
Zafar Mairaj (ظفر معراج) born on 11 October 1968, at Quetta, Balochistan, is a Pakistani drama writer, lyricist, and short story writer.
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Zapotec peoples
The Zapotecs (Zoogocho Zapotec: Didxažoŋ) are an indigenous people of Mexico.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)
