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Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality yesterday by changing Section 377. Author Anusha Sings expresses her content through this article.
Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality yesterday. Author Anusha Sings expresses her content through this article.
5th August 2018. I was in Paris – amazed to see the expressive and fearless support for gay rights everywhere. Life size graffiti on walls celebrated lesbian sexuality unabashedly. The strong visual imagery was not defaced. Rainbow colored flags outside people’s houses proudly danced in the wind. People walked over rainbow colored zebra crossings in Le Marais. Rainbow painted roads exhibited colors of gender-agnostic love in prime parts of the city, running up to the iconic Pont Alexander III bridge.
I never imagined our Indian society be anywhere close to that kind of liberated life.
6th September 2018. I can actually picture Indian streets reflecting similar shades of the inclusiveness and freedom that I felt in Paris. And that too in the current fundamentalist, dictatorial and audaciously irrational times. Someone pinch me – the Supreme Court’s stand on decriminalizing homosexuality feels blissfully unreal! Almost as if the judges are sprinkling the society and government with pixie dust.
As a citizen of this country, I feel infinitely proud. Absolutely infinitely proud.
Kudos to the relentless efforts of social groups and organizations such as the Naz Foundation, vocal members of the LGBT community, host of lawyers, and academicians, who have sincerely fought for this moment, for over two decades now.
Thank you for seeing this through. Thank you for proving once again that our country actually believes in, fights for, and can die for – hope, freedom and love.
Published earlier here.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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