Interview Given by Maya Sharma, Indira Pathak, and Saira on Donation of Material, 2022-06-21

The collection is divided into five series: 1. Vikalp Internal Documents, 2. Parma, 3. Parma/Vikalp Crisis Intervention, 4. Maya Sharma’s Writings, and 5. Vikalp’s Photo Albums

The first series, Vikalp Internal Documents, covers programmes and activities that Vikalp participated in and organised as part of their mission towards social change; and includes the organisation’s publications, and a set of hand written letters sent to them by queer women from across the state.

The second series, Parma, documents the group’s interaction with the media and other activities.

The third series, Parma/Vikalp Crisis Intervention, contains legal documents from some of the cases in which Parma/Vikalp intervened to lend support to queer individuals and newspaper clippings and magazine articles on violence against lesbians and Assigned Female at Birth (AFAB) transpersons. This series contains some of the primary sources on which Loving Women (2006) and Footprints of a Queer History (2022) are based.

The fourth series, Writings, is a selection of some notes by Maya Sharma from fact finding committees she was part of, and notes from meetings with people. It also includes writings by Indira Pathak.

The fifth series, Vikalp Photo Albums, has eleven photo albums which document Parma/Vikalp’s journey, the people involved and some memorable events.