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T.A.L.K. with Kunal VasudevaS3 E2 I The Bold and The Queer I Feat. Keshav Suri I T.A.L.K With Kunal Vasudeva I Article 377Empire, identity, unapologetically built. Keshav Suri, Executive Director at The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group, leads with clarity. He builds with empathy. He walks through The Lalit in drag. Not to provoke, but to be.This episode isn’t for noise. → It speaks to every person afraid to show themselves.→ It speaks to every founder building in silence.→ It speaks to every young Indian asking, am I allowed to lead like this?This episode speaks to every voice that the community tries to silence.Talk with Kunal Vasu...2025-06-161h 27
No-Cost Extension with Deval SanghaviMeet Chhattisgarh Mitwa Sankalp SamitiMeet the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025. The Chhattisgarh Mitwa Sankalp Samiti is a Community Based Organization working for the development and mobilization of the transgender community in the region of Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The organisation works to change societal attitudes towards the community, ensuring that government policies and schemes reach the transgender community and also conduct health related workshops. They have also collaborated with the government to set up a TransGender Welfare Board in districts and their advocacy with the pol...2025-03-1807 min
No-Cost Extension with Deval SanghaviFunding Pride: Meet Deepshika SamitiMeet the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025. Deepshikha Samiti is committed to fostering socio-economic development in Delhi/NCR through education, health initiatives, and employment opportunities, with an aim to empower women, youth, and transgender communities Since 1994, they have been building a safe, healthy and empowered environment for the transgender and MSM community and provide opportunities for them to earn a livelihood and integrate within society. Listen in to Tajuddin Khan speak about their work. To know more about the...2025-03-1809 min
No-Cost Extension with Deval SanghaviFunding Pride: Meet VikalpMeet the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025. Vikalp is a women’s rights group that advocates for the rights of marginalised women & gender/sexual minorities, working closely with and in rural tribal areas. Formed in 1996 to combat domestic violence and discrimination against women in Gujarat, India, particularly tribal women, over time Vikalp has evolved at the intersection of class, caste, religion, gender identity and sexual orientation, intervening in the everyday lives of marginalized women and LBT people. Maya Sharm...2025-03-1810 min
No-Cost Extension with Deval SanghaviFunding Pride: Meet PayanaMeet 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 dire...2025-03-1809 min
No-Cost Extension with Deval SanghaviFunding Pride: Meet Basera Samajik SansthanMeet the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025. Basera is a non-profit organization that strives to promote and protect the rights of the LGBTQ community. It advocates for transgender rights, anti-discrimination laws, protection against hate crimes, documentation and reporting of gender-based violence, and HIV/AIDS awareness. Basera has been instrumental in facilitating employment for members of the transgender community across industries and organisations. You can find out more about the work of the Basera Samajik Sansthan here: https://baserasamajiksansthan.org/a...2025-03-1807 min
No-Cost Extension with Deval SanghaviFunding Pride: Meet Karna Subarna Welfare SocietyOver the next few episodes we’ll be meeting the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025. The Karna Subarna Welfare Society is a network of seven organisations headquartered in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal and addresses the needs of the transgender and queer communities in surrounding areas. Their main verticals cover rural livelihoods, research and advocacy and awareness. You can find out more about the work of KSWS here: https://ksws.in/ The Pride Fund is led by t...2025-03-1307 min
No-Cost Extension with Deval SanghaviFunding Pride: Meet Ya_All, The Youth NetworkOver the next few episodes we’ll be meeting the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025. Sadam Hanjabam is the founder and CEO of Ya_All The Youth Network, a United Nations recognized LGBTI+ youth led and focused organisation working in Manipur, India. Ya All aims to capacitate, educate, empower equip and strengthen vulnerable communities. Listen to Sadam talk about his own personal experiences that lead to the setting up of Ya_All, how they’ve used football as tool to t...2025-03-1305 min
No-Cost Extension with Deval SanghaviFunding Pride: Meet Sappho for EqualityOver the next few episodes we’ll be meeting the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025. Sappho for Equality has been working to address the unique, intersectional challenges faced by lesbian, bisexual and transmasculine individual for over a quarter of a century. The organisation has evolved from an emotional support network to one that works in advocacy, public education and sensitising the police, medical professionals and the judicial system. Their repository of colloquial language writing on queer trans rights and experiences is so...2025-03-1308 min
No-Cost Extension with Deval SanghaviFunding Pride: Radhika Piramal on Empowering LGBTQIA+ Communities in IndiaWe're kicking off a new season of No-Cost Extension with a conversation with Radhika Piramal. Radhika Piramal is one of the founding patrons of the Pride Fund India. Radhika Piramal holds several senior leadership positions in corporate India across various companies and brands and is a charity trustee holding trustee positions at Dasra UK and Give Out - an award-winning international LGBTQ Community Foundation. A leading LQBTQIA+ advocate, Radhika is one of three Indian philanthropists supporting The Pride Fund, India's first LGBTQIA+ philanthropy fund. In this episode, Deval and Radhika speak about her personal journey, t...2025-02-2531 min
MISME Assist AsiaIndia's First dedicated LGBTQIA+ Philanthropy Fund, The Pride Fund, launchedMUMBAI - Godrej Industries Group (GIG), Radhika Piramal (Executive Director, VIP Industries & Trustee, Dasra UK) and the Keshav Suri Foundation, in collaboration with Dasra, earlier this week, announced the launch of India's first dedicated LGBTQIA+ philanthropy fund, The Pride Fund. Dasra and Godrej DEI Lab, an experimental space committed to creating an inclusive ecosystem within and beyond the GIG, will serve as the anchor partners for this initiative to cater to the community which is estimated to number more than 140 million people.The funding landscape for queer philanthropy in India is stark: only one of...2025-02-0611 min
Say Again?! With Amrita TripathiEp 14 - Privilege with Purpose: Keshav Suri on his Journey and MissionIn this powerful episode of #SayAgain, Amrita Tripathi speaks with Keshav Suri, Executive Director of The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group. Witty, candid and self-aware, Keshav takes us on a deeply personal journey—from checking his privilege as a self-described ‘nepo baby’ to using that privilege to drive meaningful change for the LGBTQIA+ community in India. Keshav opens up about the loss of his beloved cousin and on his commitment to mental health advocacy. Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Keshav delivers a timely reminder: mental health conversations and access to resources must become more equitable. Tune in for an e...2024-10-0745 min
Skift Daily Travel BriefingIndia Could See a Lifestyle Hotel BoomEpisode NotesEnnismore co-CEO and founder Sharan Pasricha believes India is a sleeping giant in the lifestyle hotel sector, writes Middle East Reporter Josh Corder. Pasricha told Senior Hospitality Editor Sean O’Neill at the Skift India Summit on Wednesday that the new wave of lifestyle hotels could be in India. Ennismore currently doesn’t have any hotels in India in its portfolio. But Pasricha said that could change as soon as this year, citing India’s growing middle class and infrastructure improvements as reasons why lifestyle hotels could thrive in the country.Next, Er...2024-03-2102 min
The Elephant in the Room81: Conversations with DEI leaders: Richa Singh (she/her) VP HR - D&I and CSR at Max Life InsuranceShownotes:We all know that countries and cultures are not monolithic and homogeneous. That when we speak about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), we are at different points in our journey; sensitivity and awareness levels may wildly differ from country to country within a region or a continent. So, the drivers for DEI will differ from one geography to another. For practitioners to not force fit HQ policies in local markets, a level of cultural intelligence is critical to understanding this.Over the coming weeks I will share insights from my conversations with DEI leaders...2022-10-1744 min
377: The legal battle against India’s anti-LGBTQ lawEpisode 10 - A Five-Judge BenchMany fresh voices enter the arena: using Article 32, five highly accomplished individuals (Navtej Singh Johar and others) and 20 students from IIT submit their petitions to the Supreme Court. They are represented by Menaka Guruswamy and Arundati Katju. We meet Saurabh Kirpal, a lawyer on their team who explains to us how a fresh Article 32 petition differs from the curative petitions that remained pending.
And then Puttuswamy happened: the 2017 case which ruled that the Aadhar biometric ID system violated Article 21 of the constitution. The judgment went through and corrected a long list of landmark cases that involved privacy...2021-10-2430 min
Good Morning, Bangalore with KayCan Companies Help Remove Stigma Around Non-Binary People? feat. Akshay TyagiHow can companies help remove stigma around non-binary people? I spoke to Akshay Tyagi who manages the Keshav Suri Foundation, lead of DEI at The Lalit.
The Keshav Suri Foundation was launched on 13th October 2018 by Dr. Jyotsna Suri, Chairperson & Managing Director, The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group, in the presence of thought leaders from various fields, at the First National Dialogue, Queering the Pitch – Agents of Change.
After the prodigious success of #PureLove Campaign, hotelier Keshav Suri, introduced the Keshav Suri Foundation to highlight the issues faced by the deeply marginalised LGBTQIA+ community. The Foundation ties up with...2021-07-2018 min
Voices In My Head with Yameer AdharBeing Queer in a LGBTQ World | Keshav Suri | Voices In My Head | Podcast Episode 2Yameer Adhar, host of Voices In My Head gets inside the head of Keshav Suri. An outspoken gay man, entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist - he is one of the key figures behind the movement that allowed a homophobic law (in India) like Section 377 to be scrapped. The discussion range from what it means to be Queer, Social Media, Mental Health, Bullying in School, Homophobia and a whole lot more. Keshav's intelligence, candor and humour are par excellence. I respect him tremendously for what he has achieved but more...2020-06-231h 15
Voices In My Head with Yameer AdharBeing Queer in a LGBTQ World | Keshav Suri | Voices In My Head | Podcast Episode 2Yameer Adhar, host of Voices In My Head gets inside the head of Keshav Suri. An outspoken gay man, entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist - he is one of the key figures behind the movement that allowed a homophobic law (in India) like Section 377 to be scrapped. The discussion range from what it means to be Queer, Social Media, Mental Health, Bullying in School, Homophobia and a whole lot more. Keshav's intelligence, candor and humour are par excellence. I respect him tremendously for what he has achieved but more...2019-11-281h 15
Spotlight on AsiaSpotlight on Asia - India's LGBT victory cry as Supreme Court scraps Section 377 heard across continentsIn this week's Spotlight on Asia, RFI's Rosslyn Hyams looks at the potential knock-on effects in South Asia and in the Indian diaspora, of the Indian Supreme Court ruling to decriminalise homosexual consensual sexual relations.
The ink was only just dry on the Indian Supreme Court's decision to scrap the Section 377 which made sex between homosexual consenting adults a crime, and already more ink was being poured into comments about how this move will help the Indian economy.
According to one of the petitioners in the case and cited by the French news agency AFP. "It can bring billions of...2018-09-1510 min
Morning No.1 with Mandee & KabirRJ Mandee & Kabir talk to Hotelier Keshav Suri about Sec 377The voices against sec 377 are getting stronger and Keshav Suri, executive director of Lalit Hotels, is the latest to join the bandwagon. Catch RJ Mandee & Kabir in conversation with Mr. Keshav on why he filed the petition in SC and how important it has become for a country to have LGBTQ community friendly laws.2018-04-2509 min