Rainbow Diaries

This week we have Arnab Biswas on Rainbow Diaries where he talks about
his coming out experience, the repeated discrimination and harassment
he faced about his gender identity, and how he beat the odds by
ensuring that people from the community have a voice, feel welcome,
and can come to work as their authentic selves. Arnab is working as an
active member of the India Diversity and Inclusion team and he has
successfully launched the LGBT ally network in India and Designed an
online training module that is available to all India Staff for
providing awareness on the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Celebrities are considered role models traditionally. So should the gay set among them take the initiative to come out of the closet? Well, Rohit Sharma, a stylist for Bollywood celebrities and an openly gay Indian fashion designer has pushed the boundaries in the art and continues to defy what is normal and mainstream. In this episode of Rainbow Dairies, Rohit Verma spills the beans about Bollywood. 

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Things are changing for the transgender community and we can't thank some people for their remarkable contribution to it. One of them is Laxmi Narayan Tripathi. She has played a key role in transforming the status of the trans community in India. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is a transgender rights activist and Bharatanatyam dancer in Mumbai, India. Born as a male, she is the first transgender to represent Asia Pacific in the UN in 2008. In this episode of Rainbow Diaries, she talks about the plight of sexual minorities and the welfare of sexual minorities, their support, and their development.

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What if we tell you that there’s a photojournalist who has just an awe-inspiring story of her own as her photos? Meet Zoya Thomas Lobo, India’s first transwoman photojournalist, who beat all odds to follow her passion. She begged in Mumbai local trains and bought her own camera with her savings. Today, she has garnered love, support, and popularity on social media for her heart-touching pictures that captured migrant laborers protesting outside Bandra station last year. Mandee and Kabir will take you to the journey of Zoya’s life through her lens.

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Kabir in Conversation with Shantanu Dhope

Why should men be afraid or embarrassed to wear makeup? Why should makeup be gendered? Why is something that seems so fun and colorful and harmless also so political? Makeup artist and Youtuber Shantanu Dhope has charmed us with his incredibly creative makeup artistry. This brown boy’s blending skills have left us in awe and made us want to go beyond the ‘looks’ to get to know the man. Hear Kabir and Shantanu talking about Makeup as an art of self-expression. 

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This week on Rainbow Diaries we have Shree Gauri Sawant a well-known transgender activist and a role model to the community she belongs to. While the country knows of her as a champion of worthy causes there is another side to her: motherhood. She became a mother when life brought her to Gayatri’s doorstep. Along with adopting a daughter, she has adopted her own community as well to provide the same love and affection she showers on her girl. We have also seen her as a compassionate and brave mom in the Vicks Commercial. 

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This week on Rainbow Diaries we have India’s sexy, stunning supermodel Milind Soman who we all love for his breath-taking body and charming, multi-talented personality. The documentary featuring him called ‘Milind Soman Made Me Gay’ was a talk of the town and since then he has been a Gay icon forever. During his conversation with Kabir, the enigmatic Milind Soman talks about exploring his sexuality and being a straight ally to the LGBTQ+ community.

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Look who we have in the house this week on Rainbow Diaries!! Let's talk about the "Wonder boys in White". Yes, you guessed it right! One of the most celebrated fashion designers - Sandeep Khosla joins us to talk about his relationship with Abu Jani and how their passion for fashion was the reason that not just flourished their relationship but also helped them achieve milestones in the Fashion Industry since the last 30 years. Known to have an appetite for privacy, and rather let their aesthetics do the talking, let's have a tete-a-tete with one of the finest in the fashion industry! 

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This week on Rainbow Dairies we have Sushant Divgikar aka Rani Ko - He - Noor in a sassy, savage way shares with Mandee and Kabir about how Sushant opened up to parents about sexual orientation, how they had always been breaking barriers and how their drag avatar is empowering women and Sushant also has a special message for the pride month. Sushant Divgikar is an Indian model, actor, singer, columnist, psychologist, motivational speaker, drag queen, pageant director, and video jockey. In July 2014, he was crowned Mr Gay India 2014. He represented India at Mr Gay World 2014.

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India's first openly gay comedian, Navin Noronha was born and raised in suburban Mumbai. Touted as the ideal kid everything went sideways when he got into comedy, or so his mom believes. He draws on these experiences in his stand-up solo show, The Good Child. He also owns up to his queer male identity in his show Homos Odyssey alongside comedian Nick Pillow. This week on Rainbow Dairies we have stand-up comedian ' Navin Noronha on his going away episode. Navin talks to Mandee and Kabir about his journey of coming out and the struggles after he came out – He questions authority and religion - Expressing himself through stand-up comedy.

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