Meet the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India's first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025.

What is Payana? Payana means Equality.

Payana is a community owned and managed organization based in Bengaluru that aims to address the many challenges of transgender individuals from underserved backgrounds. Their goal is to remove discrimination towards non-English speaking, working class members of sexual minorities and ensure their social inclusion and a life of dignity.

The Pride Fund is led by three philanthropists: Radhika Piramal, Keshav Suri, the executive director of the Lalit Suri Hospitality Group and the founder of the Keshav Suri Foundation, and Parmesh Shahani, head of Godrej Dei Labs from the Godrej Industries Group. Read more about it here: https://thepridefundindia.org/about-the-pride. You can know more about Dasra's work at https://www.dasra.org.

This episode is in Hindi.