#new dehli

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Agrasen Ki Baoli (step well)

Agrasen ki Baoli (also known as Agar Sain ki Baoli or Ugrasen ki Baoli) is a 60-meter long and 15-meter wide historical step well on Hailey Road near Connaught Place, a short walk from Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, India.

 Although there are no known historical records to prove who built Agrasen ki Baoli, it is believed that it was originally built by the legendary king Agrasen during the Mahabharat epic era and rebuilt in the 14th century by the Agrawal community which traces its origin to Maharaja Agrasen.

Picture by abhishekp3

#art #design #architecture #history #step #staircase #stairwell #stairsdesign #agrasen ki baoli #stepwell #india #agar sain ki baoli #new dehli #king agrasen #stairway #staircasedesign

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Musée des toilettes, New Dehli, Inde

Après avoir parcouru ce musée vous connaîtrez toute l’histoire des sanitaires à travers le monde et vous pourrez ainsi briller dans les dîners en ville. Ce musée a été conçu par un docteur très impliqué dans le développement de la salubrité publique dans un pays où peu de gens y avaient accès. Ce musée ouvert en 1970 a une vocation d’éducation sanitaire et sociale

#musée des toilettes #musée #inde #new dehli

[incarcerated-heartfaces]

And he loved her feet so much for they had walked the earth

#feetish #phhhoto #male foot #evil eye #poets on tumblr #love #black and white #lips #love poem #new dehli #calabria #tokyo manji gang #thailand

[whatevergreen]

Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India - Lakshit Bajaj, February 2019

#hauz khas #new dehli #street life

[uttarakhand-jagran]

मुख्यमंत्री धामी एक सप्ताह में दूसरी बार पहुंचे दिल्ली, मंत्रिमंडल विस्तार को लेकर हो सकती है चर्चा

नई दिल्ली:-   रविवार देर शाम को मुख्यमंत्री पुष्कर सिंह धामी नई दिल्ली पहुंच गए। मुख्यमंत्री के अचानक दिल्ली जाने से राजनीतिक गलियारों में मंत्रिमंडल विस्तार या फेरबदल की चर्चा भी शुरू हो गई है। आज  मुख्यमंत्री केंद्रीय नेताओं से मुलाकात कर सकते हैं। मुख्यमंत्री पुष्कर सिंह धामी का यह एक सप्ताह के अंदर दिल्ली का दूसरा दौरा है। इससे पूर्व दिल्ली दौरे पर उन्होंने केंद्रीय सड़क परिवहन एवं राजमार्ग…

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#breaking news #cabinet expansion #Chief Minister Dhami #Delhi #Dhami cabinet #New Dehli #news #reshuffle #Union Home Minister Amit Shah #Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari #uttarakhand

[wildbeimwild]

Affenproblem in der indischen Hauptstadt Neu Delhi

Die Tiere laufen in Gruppen durch die Strassen, springen durch offene Fenster in Wohnungen, öffnen Kühlschranktüren und nehmen Essen mit. Sie baden in Wassertanks, die Menschen auf ihren Dächern haben oder zerstören auch mal Satellitenschüsseln. Sie haben schon Corona-Test-Blutproben oder Geldbörsen geklaut und später Geldnoten herumgeworfen. Vor einigen Jahren starb ein stellvertretender…

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#Affen #Gesellschaft #Hanuman #Himachal Pradesh #Indien #New Dehli #Rajeev Kumar #Shimla #Tiere #Tierschutz #Wasim Akram #Wildtiere

[buzznolimit]

L’actu de l’Inde en vidéo à télécharger

La rubrique Actu du moment de Buzz No Limit a été mise à jour pour vous proposer de nouvelles informations internationales. Vous aurez des détails sur la destruction de deux tours en Inde qui a fait le tour des médias dans le monde entier, dans une vidéo à télécharger.

#new dehli #actu du moment #buzz no limit

[easycarrental]

Best Viscose Pique and Polyester Interlock Fabrics

Best Viscose Pique fabric is a lightweight, breathable, and textured fabric that seamlessly combines the natural comfort of viscose with the sophistication of a pique weave. Read more.

#Viscose #Viscose fabric #Best Viscose fabric #Best Viscose fabric in india #Best Viscose fabric from best supplier #Best Viscose clothes #finnest Viscose fabric #Best Viscose fabric in dehli #Best Viscose fabric in new dehli #Best Viscose fabric in delhi india #Best Viscose fabric in delhi

[spicysucculentz]

my area’s air quality got upgraded from “unhealthy” to “very unhealthy”😵‍💫 bordering on “hazardous” rn

#spicy speaks #new dehli has better air quality than us rn #it’s not fun #I can’t even imagine how bad it is for the people actually IN canada

[news-trust-india]

CM Visit Dehli : मुख्यमंत्री धामी ने केंद्रीय मंत्री डॉ महेन्द्र नाथ पाण्डेय से की शिष्टाचार भेंट

देहरादून: CM Visit Dehli   मुख्यमंत्री ने केंद्रीय मंत्री से राज्य में इलेक्ट्रिक व्हीकल चार्जिंग स्टेशन जल्द बनाने के लिए अनुरोध किया। उत्तराखंड में इलेक्ट्रिक व्हीकल्स एवं बैटरी उत्पाद में निवेश के लिए सहायता का अनुरोध किया। साथ ही ऑटोमोटिव उद्योग में नवाचार और नई तकनीक पर शोध एवं प्रोत्साहन के लिए उत्तराखंड में इंडस्ट्री पार्टनर के साथ सेंटर ऑफ एक्सीलेंस  शुरू करवाने का आग्रह किया ताकि प्रदेश…

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#CM Visit Dehli #hindi news #उत्तराखंड #मुख्यमंत्री पुष्कर सिंह धामी

[kdgohard]

Listen to the full album “YOU DONT KNOW ME” by WestCoast hiphop artist KD and get acquainted with his catchy styles on his 7th independent release.

#Spotify #applemusic #amazon #tidal #pandora #itunes #california #new york #atlanta #dallas #las vagas #london #dehli #brasil #south africa #hiphop #rap #trap #music #you dont know me

[thekatfuzz]

Hey City Guesser, what the fuck

#city guesser #game #it was in new dehli

[rrcraft-and-lore]

In addition to my Monkey Man post from earlier, the always kind & sweet Aparna Verma (author of The Phoenix King, check it out) asked that I do a thread on Hijras, & more of the history around them, South Asia, mythology (because that's my thing), & the positive inclusion of them in Monkey Man which I brought up in my gushing review.

Hijra: They are the transgender, eunuch, or intersex people in India who are officially recognized as the third sex throughout most countries in the Indian subcontinent. The trans community and history in India goes back a long way as being documented and officially recognized - far back as 12th century under the Delhi Sultanate in government records, and further back in our stories in Hinduism. The word itself is a Hindi word that's been roughly translated into English as "eunuch" commonly but it's not exactly accurate.

Hijras have been considered the third sex back in our ancient stories, and by 2014 got official recognition to identify as the third gender (neither male or female) legally. Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and India have accepted: eunuch, trans, intersex people & granted them the proper identification options on passports and other government official documents.

But let's get into some of the history surrounding the Hijra community (which for the longest time has been nomadic, and a part of India's long, rich, and sometimes, sadly, troubled history of nomadic tribes/people who have suffered a lot over the ages. Hijras and intersex people are mentioned as far back as in the Kama Sutra, as well as in the early writings of Manu Smriti in the 1st century CE (Common Era), specifically said that a third sex can exist if possessing equal male and female seed.

This concept of balancing male/female energies, seed, and halves is seen in two places in South Asian mythos/culture and connected to the Hijra history.

First, we have Aravan/Iravan (romanized) - who is also the patron deity of the transgender community. He is most commonly seen as a minor/village deity and is depicted in the Indian epic Mahabharata. Aravan is portrayed as having a heroic in the story and his self-sacrifice to the goddess Kali earns him a boon.

He requests to be married before his death. But because he is doomed to die so shortly after marriage, no one wants to marry him.

No one except Krishna, who adopts his female form Mohini (one of the legendary temptresses in mythology I've written about before) and marries him. It is through this union of male, and male presenting as female in the female form of Mohini that the seed of the Hijras is said to begun, and why the transgender community often worships Aravan and, another name for the community is Aravani - of/from Aravan.

But that's not the only place where a gender non conforming divine representation can be seen. Ardhanarishvara is the half female form of lord Shiva, the destroyer god.

Shiva combines with his consort Parvarti and creates a form that represents the balancing/union between male/female energies and physically as a perfectly split down the middle half-male half-female being. This duality in nature has long been part of South Asian culture, spiritual and philosophical beliefs, and it must be noted the sexuality/gender has often been displayed as fluid in South Asian epics and the stories. It's nothing new.

Many celestial or cosmic level beings have expressed this, and defied modern western limiting beliefs on the ideas of these themes/possibilities/forms of existence.

Ardhanarishvara signifies "totality that lies beyond duality", "bi-unity of male and female in God" and "the bisexuality and therefore the non-duality" of the Supreme Being.

Back to the Hijra community.

They have a complex and long history. Throughout time, and as commented on in the movie, Monkey Man, the Hijra community has faced ostracization, but also been incorporated into mainstream society there. During the time of the Dehli Sultanate and then later the Mughal Empire, Hijras actually served in the military and as military commanders in some records, they were also servants for wealthy households, manual laborers, political guardians, and it was seen as wise to put women under the protection of Hijras -- they often specifically served as the bodyguards and overseers of harems. A princess might be appointed a Hijra warrior to guard her.

But by the time of British colonialism, anti-Hijra laws began to come in place folded into laws against the many nomadic tribes of India (also shown in part in Monkey Man with Kid (portrayed by Dev Patel) and his family, who are possibly

one of those nomadic tribes that participated in early theater - sadly by caste often treated horribly and relegated to only the performing arts to make money (this is a guess based on the village play they were performing as no other details were given about his family).

Hijras were criminalized in 1861 by the Indian Penal Code enforced by the British and were labeled specifically as "The Hijra Problem" -- leading to an anti-Hijra campaign across the subcontinent with following laws being enacted: punishing the practices of the Hijra community, and outlawing castration (something many Hijra did to themselves). Though, it should be noted many of the laws were rarely enforced by local Indian officials/officers. But, the British made a point to further the laws against them by later adding the Criminal Tribes Act in 1871, which targeted the Hijra community along with the other nomadic Indian tribes - it subjected them to registration, tracking/monitoring, stripping them of children, and their ability to sequester themselves in their nomadic lifestyle away from the British Colonial Rule.

Today, things have changed and Hijras are being seen once again in a more positive light (though not always and this is something Monkey Man balances by what's happened to the community in a few scenes, and the heroic return/scene with Dev and his warriors). All-hijra communities exist and sort of mirror the western concept of "found families" where they are safe haven/welcoming place trans folks and those identifying as intersex.

These communities also have their own secret language known as Hijra Farsi, which is loosely based on Hindi, but consists of a unique vocabulary of at least 1,000 words.

As noted above, in 2014, the trans community received more legal rights.

Specifically: In April 2014, Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan declared transgender to be the third gender in Indian law in National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India.

Hijras, Eunuchs, apart from binary gender, be treated as "third gender" for the purpose of safeguarding their rights under Part III of our Constitution and the laws made by the Parliament and the State Legislature. Transgender persons' right to decide their self-identified gender is also upheld and the Centre and State Governments are directed to grant legal recognition of their gender identity such as male, female or as third gender.

I've included some screenshots of (some, not all, and certainly not the only/definitive reads) books people can check out about SOME of the history. Not all again. This goes back ages and even our celestial beings/creatures have/do display gender non conforming ways.

There are also films that touch on Hijra history and life. But in regards to Monkey Man, which is what started this thread particularly and being asked to comment - it is a film that positively portrayed India's third sex and normalized it in its depiction. Kid the protagonist encounters a found family of Hijras at one point in the story (no spoilers for plot) and his interactions/acceptance, living with them is just normal. There's no explaining, justifying, anything to/for the audience. It simply is. And, it's a beautiful arc of the story of Kid finding himself in their care/company.

#hijra #trans representation #monkey man #dev patel #transgender #trans rights #trans rights are human rights #third sex #indian history #indian culture #colonialism #imperialism #south Asian mythos #South Asian myths #Aravan #Iravan #Mahabharata #hindu mythology #hindu gods #kali goddess #krishna #hindu mythology art #Ardhanarishvara #Shiva #Parvarti #sexuality #gender fluid #fluid sexuality #trans community #transgender rights

[uttarakhand-jagran]

आज मुख्यमंत्री धामी नीति आयोग की बैठक में सरकार के विकास का रोडमैप करेंगे  साझा

नई दिल्ली:-  नई दिल्ली में मुख्यमंत्री पुष्कर सिंह धामी नीति आयोग गर्वनिंग बॉडी की बैठक में भाग लेने के लिए पहुंच गए हैं। उन्होंने बैठक में राज्य में सालभर में आने वाली करीब सात करोड़ अस्थाई आबादी के लिए सुविधाएं जुटाने का मुद्दा उठाने के संकेत दिए। उन्होंने कहा कि उत्तराखंड की भौगोलिक परिस्थितियां प्रतिकूल होने के नाते नीति आयोग से राज्य के लिए अलग से व्यवस्था करने की मांग करेंगे। मुख्यमंत्री ने…

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#Chief Minister Pushkar Singh #dehradun #government uttarakhand #New Dehli #new parliament building #news #NITI Aayog Governing Body meeting #uttarakhand

[reasonsforhope]

A surgeon who carried out the UK’s first womb transplant on a cisgender woman has said similar transplants for transgender women are probably about 10 to 20 years away.

In February, Imperial College London professor, James Smith, and his colleague, Isabel Quiroga, from the Oxford Transplant Centre, carried out the womb transplant on a married woman whose 40-year-old sister was willing to donate her own, having already given birth to two children.

The 34-year-old recipient, who lives in England and wishes not to be named, received the transplant during an operation lasting more than nine hours at the Churchill Hospital, in Oxford.

It is hoped that, in the future, womb transplants can be performed on trans women, giving them the chance to have a baby, but Smith said the reality of this is still decades away.

There is currently no “technical feasibility” to perform the operation on trans women due to a difference in the pelvic and vascular anatomy, the shape of the pelvis and issues with the microbiome – the network of micro-organisms that live in the human body, he explained...

Dr Narendra Kaushik, a surgeon in the Indian capital New Dehli, said in May 2022 that transplanting uteruses into trans women is “the future."

Uterine transplants are currently rare, costly and experimental surgeries that typically rely on donor organs. They are often done on people born without a uterus so they can become pregnant and give birth.

The first successful womb transplant took place at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden in 2014. Two years later, the operation was carried successfully once more in the US.

About 50 babies have now been born worldwide as a result of womb transplants.

Kaushik, who has 15 years of experience in gender-affirming surgeries, said: “We cannot predict exactly when this will happen but it will happen soon. We have our plans and we are very optimistic.”

-via PinkNews, August 23, 2023

#lgbtq #transgender #trans issues #trans women #trans healthcare #gender affirming care #trans rights are human rights #medical transition #organ transplant #organ donation #trans femme #united kingdom #uk #sweden #terfs are gonna have a fucking aneurysm and personally I can't wait #medical news #good news #hope

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The Well of Death Photog. Siddharth Kaneria

The wall of death, motordrome, or well of death is a carnival sideshow featuring a silo- or barrel-shaped wooden cylinder located in New Dehli, India. Inside, motorcyclists, or the drivers of miniature automobiles travel along the vertical wall and perform stunts, held in place by friction and centrifugal force. The original wall of death was in 1911 on Coney Island in the United States.

#no fucks given #well of death #india #stunts #insane #daredevil #adrenaline #history #crazy #motordome #stunt show #cars #motorcycles #places #sports #world #deathcore #death #aesthetic #fearless #brave #bravery #events #world events #around the world