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India Grows Up

New Delhi: Some weeks ago, on a flight, I watched Milk, a film about the life of the American gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk. The film was about a remarkable man who fought for his beliefs with passion and joie de vivre and who died sadly young. The well-crafted film, with an Oscar-worthy performance ....Read more

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Gay Rights - about timeBy: Raj | Friday , 17 Jul '09 8:16:42 AM Reply | Forward The de-criminalizing of an ancient british puritanical legal code is way overdue. Thank you for your nuanced and articulate article. As a nation, we are still intellectually stumbling, non-enlightened indivduals - we have just DE-CRIMINALIZED sex between two consenting adults. Think about it. We have not really accepted them in our society, we have not accepted gay marriage - we are just allowing them not be jailed! This is our famous Bharat spirituality and live and let live open-ness? We have a long way to go before we can be proud of ourselves as a culture. So much for the family -values. When have gay people not been sons or daughters? Shame on us for an incredibly suffoctaing and discriminating society - not just for gays, but for dark skinned people, women, and anyone else who is not a light skinned male. We will never be a superior culture until we deal with our own shit!

India grows up? does it?By: Anil | Monday , 6 Jul '09 17:11:51 PM Reply | Forward India grew up a long time ago, in its great scriptures like Bhagwad Gita and Ramayan, to name just two. Making gay behaviour legal, although important, is not much on any scale. After all, hetrosexuals do not hold hands in public or kiss. Nor do gays. To suggest that India has grown up becuase of this single act is demeaning India and its contribution to the world in so many myriad spheres. What measure is the writer using?

Depends on your perspectiveBy: Rabi | Saturday , 25 Jul '09 0:28:28 AM Reply | Forward If you look at it from a legal perspective of decriminalization then we haven't really grown a lot but, if you look at it as a change in social outlook then we have grown (might be infinitesimally miniscule) but growth nonetheless. Why do you need to compare this to great scriptures. Like they say the measure of what pathetic loosers we are is how far back we have to look back to feel proud of us. All in all, good decision by court and govt and like Raj sumarized we've got way much more distance to cover to take pride as a society.

GAY RIGHTSBy: JOSHUA KIPKEMOI BOITT | Monday , 6 Jul '09 13:05:03 PM Reply | Forward Social and legal war is being fought in four vanguards but we should emulate the old rule and the best behaviour for the society in general.Amrita Shah's article India grows up in Indian express got it out of context,"..the event is a triumph not just for the gay community but for Indian society as a whole" No No,do not generalise,give it a set,actually gay rights is their own rights and the society has its own,for me its a blow to the rich culture of India that I wanted to emulate,it brought tourists from across the globe and still rising to the occassion,but legalising gay rights shutters my dream,where did our nature go,thrown out of the window,may be for now but I hope for the best later.We need to revisit our decisions for posterity and those advocating for gay rights,the time is not ripe and in this generation it should not have happened but all in all we should learn to walk before we run.