Ankur Paliwal
@Ankur_pali
Journalist. Founder CEO @queerbeatmedia . Awards @AAASKavli, @sajahq, @onewm, alum @columbiajourn. Insta @ankurreports
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In 2013 Adani’s bulldozers destroyed Kete, a Chhattisgarh village, to mine coal. I spent months tracking former Kete Adivasis to reconstruct how the village which was earlier opposed the mining was manipulated and divided over time to give up its land. theguardian.com/environment/20…
It's our birthday today!
Three years ago, queerbeat began as a unique media platform focused on covering LGBTQIA+ communities in India. Gratitude to our partners, paying #qbClub members, and all the readers for your support. We’d continue to need it as we build queerbeat further and stronger! ❤️
Delhi has deployed riot police to stop a protest against air pollution. As the AQI touches 600 long before peak winter, the government is busy tampering with monitors with water sprinklers and beating up young mothers and students for fighting for clean air. National disaster.
I will be here. Among other exciting things related to movement and mind, we’d discuss how queer communities are reclaiming and redefining sports as a space for building joyful communities and selfhood. Join us at @manotsavaindia
Please let us know if anyone is organising a protest march or sit-in wrt the air-pollution emergency in Delhi. People organising and democratically resisting government inaction and apathy is the only solution. A mass mobilisation is required. Opposition parties should support.
An in-depth look into the deaths of two trans women–one in Kolkata and another in Goa–reveals how trans people face systemic violence in death, as they do in life. If you read one piece today, please make it this one.
A story that took 5 months➡️ Do transgender people, who have to fight to live their lives on their own terms, get dignity in death? @ekta_sonawane and I investigated the circumstances around the deaths of two transgender women: queerbeat.org/stories/a-tran… @queerbeat_media
Do trans people get to die with dignity? At @queerbeat_media we spent months reporting this story. Out tomorrow!
Arya came out publicly during the launch of Across the Nala, a zine documenting the relationship of Dalit-Bahujan queer folks with Delhi. The attention that followed didn’t feel like recognition, but rather erasure, writes Arya in this powerful essay: queerbeat.org/stories/for-da…
Help. We’ve found about more cases where this Principal has protected sexual abusers. We want to publish about it in print, in Karnataka. If you are a journalist working for such a publication, and want to pursue this, please get in touch via email or DM.
Bengaluru Police arrested the hostel warden and 6 students of Redbridge International Academy after a 15 year old student was forced to dance naked, beaten with metal hangers and sexually assaulted for 4 days in the hostel. The warden and Principal Sherene Thomas had tried to…
Looking for freelance journalists with a solid body of work who are interested in ambitious, rigorous field reportage. Commissioning for @queerbeat_media. Payment rates are among the highest in India afaik (check website for details.) DM or email [email protected] to connect.
Have a queer pop culture hot take that will blow our minds? We want to hear from you. queerbeat is now looking for different pop culture stories—reviews, interviews, and features. Follow this thread to know more: 1/n
Such an honour for @queerbeat_media . Thank you @CMHLPIndia for recognising our work.
1/6 🎉We’re thrilled to share that Sudipta Das, contributing writer for @queerbeat_media, has won the #ProjectSIREN Award 2025 for their article titled, “How chronic illness and neurodivergence shaped a queer love story.”
1/6 🎉We’re thrilled to share that Sudipta Das, contributing writer for @queerbeat_media, has won the #ProjectSIREN Award 2025 for their article titled, “How chronic illness and neurodivergence shaped a queer love story.”
Trans masc persons struggle to be seen and desired as masculine while they resist toxic tropes. Will cishet and queer communities catch up? Diti's essay for @queerbeat_media on the trans masc quest for a love that feels equal, mutual, and safe. queerbeat.org/stories/the-we…
On this day, in 2018, the Supreme Court of India decriminalised same-sex relations. We reached out to some folks behind the petitions that led to this judgement to ask them: What's one thing you believed would have changed by now — but hasn't? Check out what they told us 1/n
I am so thrilled that @nikita1712 has joined us. Really looking forward to working with you and learning from you, Nikita. Welcome to @queerbeat_media
We are excited to share that @nikita1712 has joined the queerbeat team as a contributing editor. She will bring her experience in editing long-form stories & work closely with our writers. Join us in welcoming Nikita & tell us what stories you would like to see on queerbeat! ❤️
Goa has more unoccupied homes than any other state in India. Why is its govt desperate to permit construction on lakhs of sq m of protected ecosensitive land? My article for @frontline_india explores how political power in Goa flows through real estate. frontline.thehindu.com/environment/go…
Trans lives are not only defined by the tragedies inflicted on them. They are replete with ironic, subversive, and expansive joy—joy that often reveals itself unexpectedly. These are such stories of trans elders in India (as told by @nooonrienderien): queerbeat.org/stories/what-t…
🎙#NLCharcha में इस हफ्ते प्राइड मंथ के बीच LGBTQ समुदाय के हालात और पूर्वोत्तर राज्यों में बाढ़ के असर को लेकर विस्तार से बात हुई. बातचीत में @Shardool_ के साथ @Ankur_pali, @Smita_Sharma, @anandvardhan26 और @vikasjangraji शामिल हुए. 🔒 सुनिए पूरी चर्चा: hindi.newslaundry.com/2025/06/07/nl-…
This short essay is both beautiful and inspiring in equal parts. "Queer platonic love is the ailaan that my love can form any and every shape, that it can shift, that it is beyond definition." queerbeat.org/stories/an-ode…
![Ankur_pali's tweet card. Queer platonic love is the ailaan [proclamation] that my love can form any and every shape, that it can shift, that it is beyond definition.](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1991714349619245059/Gcblg88t?format=jpg&name=orig)
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