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Rohit completed his bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University this year. He is presently a graduate student in the Department of English. He is a youth queer activist and has presented several papers on queer identity in South Asia at various seminars and conferences in india and abroad. . He has also made two films on queer and gender identity- 'Crimson' and 'Azure' which have been screened at several venues through out the country and has been made a part of the 'Pride Library' at the University of Western Ontario.He has worked with several organisations dealing with issues of gender and sexuality, child rights, religion and violence.He has previously worked with the organisations- Kalam Margins Write, Sappho for Equality, Comet Media Foundation and served on the board of Elaan-Combat Child Sexual Abuse. He is currently working as the Coordinating Officer and Consultant of the Sexuality and Gender Wing (SGW) in the NGO- Elaan Combat Child Sexual Abuse and is the founder-editor of a South Asian youth magazine-Kinaara. (www.kinaaramagazine.org)
He has been awarded the Lattoo fellowship in recognition of his work as a youth 'change-maker' in the Year 2009. He has previously been awarded the CHOICE internship and fellowship program of Seagull Foundation for the Arts where he worked with several organisations in the capacity of an intern/fellow for the last two years.
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