Yes right. There are few things we Indians don’t like to discuss. But today it took a different turn with all the Indian media reporting the Delhi High Court decision decriminalizing the gay sex. It became a headline in all new papers in no time. May be due to the controversy surrounding the subject.
In brief, the High Court ruled that the Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 377 violates fundamental rights to personal liberty (Article 21 of the Constitution) and equality (Article 14) and prohibition of discrimination (Article 15). There are some arguments and counter arguments over the verdict in all major news papers and blogs in the form of comments. It was interesting to see how people respond on controversial subjects like this. I feel that i was wrong all these days about my opinion on Indians. Indians do discuss controversial subjects (only when there is a fire). I too, want to add some fuel to it.
I feel that everybody has a choice to live their life. If somebody is not causing a harm to others then we should respect their individual rights. Well, there might be arguments that this verdict will harm the Indian society and the culture etc etc. In my personal opinion, we, the people created these cultures and societies. Not vice versa. Cultures did evolve. We are not the same as we were in 5000 BC. There are lot of social, technological and cultural developments happened since then. Speaking of nature, we all became unnatural centuries ago. We are acting against the nature every day in our life. I don’t think we can call it unnatural either. And it is their private life anyway. How many of us really care about what our neighbor does in his bedroom ? So i think it’s time to live and let live.
Some of you may not like my opinion on this. But as always, you are welcome to express your own opinion.
