Collection: Pawan Dhall

Pawan Dhall is a Kolkata-based queer activist, archivist, researcher and writer. He was a founding member of Counsel Club, Kolkata (1993–2002), among India’s earliest queer support groups, and edited its house journals Pravartak and Naya Pravartak. He worked with SAATHII from 2002 to 2014 to help secure universal access to health and social justice. He is now associated with Varta Trust, Kolkata, as the managing trustee. His publications include Queer Potli: Memories, Imaginations and Re-imaginations of Urban Queer Spaces in India (Queer Ink, 2019) and Out of Line and Offline: Queer Mobilizations in ’90s Eastern India (Seagull Books, 2020).