CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Chaired by professor and author Manabi Bandopadhyay, the meet, held in Kolkata, was an effort to give a larger platform to the voices of transgender people in Bengali literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mamata Banerjee. She is India’s first openly transgender college principal, and began work as such in 2015 at the Krishnagar Women’s College in Nadia district.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pooja, a 34-year-old transwoman from Neeramanvi village in Manvi taluk of Raichur district, has been selected for the post of Graduate Primary Teacher for Classes 6 to 8 this year.

Detailed explanation-4: -Manobi Bandyopadhyay was born as Somnath Bandyopadhyay in West Bengal’s Naihati. She complete her Phd in Philosophy.

Detailed explanation-5: -Meet Manabi Bandhopadhyay, India’s first transgender college principal from West Bengal. A transgender from West Bengal, Manabi Bandopadhyay, made history on June 9, 2015, when she was made the college principal at Krishnagar Women’s College in Nadia district. She is the first transgender to have achieved this feat.