There was a time when I met a gay person, my first thought would be, “Oh my god! He does it with another man!” The second would be will he make an attempt on me. Upbringing and society had not equipped me to interact with gay/homosexual/alternate-sex people normally.

प्रगतिशील लेखन के आंदोलन से जुडे हुए प्रसिद्ध पटकथा लेखक अतुल तिवारी ने यह लेख लाहौर में आयोजित फैज़ शताबदी समारोह में प्रस्तुत किया था और फिर दिल्ली में थिंक इंडिया मैगज़ीन के फैज़ नम्बर की रिलीज के समय होने वाले कार्यक्रम में भी उन्होंने यह लेख प्रस्तुत किया।  Here is an excerpt.

It has been a decade since whistleblower Satyendra Dubey was killed. A tribute.

Om Prakash Valmiki (ओमप्रकाश वाल्मीकि) was a Dalit writer and poet well known for his autobiography, Joothan, considered a milestone in Dalit literature. He was born at Barla village of Muzzafarpur district in Uttar Pradesh on June 30, 1950. After retirement from Government Ordnance Factory he lived in Dehradun where he died of complications arising out of stomach cancer on November 17, 2013.

Here's a sample of his writing.