Fariyaad Karen'GAY'

The Indian Penal Code (IPC), of which Section 377 forms a part, was drafted in 1860 by Lord Macaulay as a part of the colonial project of regulating and controlling the British- and Indian-origin subjects. It reads:

377. Unnatural offences: Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Explanation: Penetration is sufficient to constitute the carnal intercourse necessary to the offense described in this section.

The ambit of Section 377, which was devised to criminalize and prevent homosexual associations - sodomy in particular, extends to any sexual union involving penile insertion. Thus even consensual heterosexual acts such as fellatio and digital penetration may be a punishable offense under this law. [wikipedia]

Swami Ram Dev Baba: Gays are sick people and should be sent to hospitals.

and isnt your YOGA supposed to help sick people????

Lalu Prasad Yadav: "Such things which affect the society should not be permitted at all... Government has a greater responsibility towards the society,"

and if i may ask what greater responsibility are we talking about here???

Since when has 'bedroom activity' started interesting our nation? Why we are so bothered what two consenting adults do behind closed doors of their bedrooms, irrespective of their sexual orientation? Have we ever been interested in two straight peoples' sexual lives like we have this sudden curiosity and opinion about gays getting equal right to live a normal life? What the hell is wrong with us all? Look at the statements being made by RESPONSIBLE people of India. People who make promises of a better, brighter India. A more progressive India.

It’s a pity that education and awareness couldn’t bring about a change in the way we think. Such education is a waste and such people are a disgrace who cannot accept other humans for what they are. What is the big deal about homosexuality after all? You like a woman and I like a man is normal… he likes a boy and she likes a girl is abnormal? We don’t decide as we grow up what tendency we will pick. Our parent’s don’t influence our choices of gender in our bringing up process. Neither is it genetic nor is it psychological. It’s purely biological. And if its that, then it’s surely gifted by god if that makes the understanding better!

Who are we to decide what is normal and what isn’t? Just because a few million act in certain way it is normal!? Is it written is your god book, the rules of normal and abnormal? Who gives anybody the right to call a certain sect of people as SICK? YOU???? And we thought you were a spiritual leader. Of the millions that followed you, many would be homosexual to bring to your notice sir, and you were unwittingly healing these SICK people without them going to the hospital!

The government has never done any better work before than this ever, Sir! Which society are we talking about? And for some greater responsibility towards this very same society, I think the government should strive to make it safer for all. With the 26/11 case judgements still pending in court and all sorts of allegations of complacency on the same responsible government, I think they surely have better things to do!

TOI carried this really interesting and informative article on how gayness was not shameful in our own ancient India. Experts of some mythological incidents from a book were quoted in the article and I was fascinated to know how our country is so obsessed with sex and sexuality. It quotes a story from the puranas where Brihaspati discovers his wife Tara is pregnant with the child of her lover Chandra. He curses the love child to be born neuter. Budh later marries Ila, a man who becomes a woman when he accidentally trespasses an enchanted grove. From that union springs the Chandra-vamsa, or the lunar dynasty of kings. So says the Mahabharata. In the Valmiki Ramayana, there are descriptions of Rakshasa women who kiss women on Ravana’s bed on whose lips lingers the taste of their master. Krittivasa Ramayana is the story of two widows who drink a magic potion and, in the absence of their husband, make love to each other and end up bearing a child without bones (traditionally believed to be the contribution of semen).

Is there a more perverse nation than this? We have granths written on sex and sex education. We have in our ancient times accepted and lived with homosexuals. The era when there was no ‘education’ as such. They were all supposedly uneducated. I think we were much more forward and broad in our thinking then, than we are today. Education has made us penny wise and pound foolish.

This very same responsible government has made this responsible decision because a few morons create nuisance in the lives of two people who want to just a live a peaceful life without being mocked at for the choice they made. You like potatoes I like beans so what!!!!!! Take charge of your lives and stop peeping into other peoples’ bedrooms. Behind closed doors we all do the same gig that they do! It’s just a matter of choice!

I AM DEMOCRACY

Yes i am... because i have the right to what i want, i have the right to say what i want and i have the right to go where i want to. My country has given me this right and if i break a lamp post tomorrow nobody can stop me! If i extort money from the poor how can you question me? I will sit on a 'aamaran anshan' if you do not fulfill my demands, i will destroy national property because i want something and you are not giving it to me. I love my country but i won't stay here all my life... i will not stand up for the national anthem...dude its just a song!

That's how your democratic 'janta' thinks these days. They feel its their birth and civic right to bloddy do what they want to coz that is what democracy is right!? Or that's how we interpret it or want it to be? When a person is given rights in the name of freedom it seldom extends to taking various liberties. That's what i have seen lately. I don't need to be a soldier to love my country. I am a citizen and i feel proud to be part of the world's largest democracy. When India got independance it wasn't even on the back of anybody's mind that democracy so conviniently will be translated into liberties. Our country today has become more libertarian than democratic. Everyone does what they want and get away with it!

Now why i am writing these provocative words is because i was watching news in the morning and was highly disturbed by the menace in Rajasthan. Roads have been blocked, trains have been cancelled and a curfew has been imposed in NCR and Noida and all because a few sect of people want reservation quota for them! We all anticipated this as this aint the first time this community has been voilatile. Now this is democracy and i will do what i want... see the difference? By the good old books in our constitution democracy in this situation means ' i have a demand and i want you to hear me out, there has to be a way of fulfilling my demands also'... but look what libertarians do!

This country is filled with people of freewill. I am free and i will! Everybody exercises their freewill in their capacities and worst is when people at responsible posts make use of it. The Aarushi murder case is a classic example - after hours of not getting even a ion closer to the murderer the police suddenly sprung up one day saying they found the culprit. I dont want to comment on how true they are since its subjudice but because they were under pressure from media and the govt the named people and we all know that. For years the most highly placed people have been the most frivilous of the lot and i am talking out of experience. I sometimes pity the state of this country because if it was at all run by people then it would not have been the way it is.

Everything is fantastic about India but the crime rate and the dirt. Vast number of uneducated class has ruined the country. There is a large mass of educated illiterates as well. I was at nariman point last week and sipped tea gazing at the sun set. I turned around to find a dustbin but there was none! I was amazed because its evidently a posh area and some chic 7 stars around but no dustbins! The guy besides me asked me to throw it away in the water but i felt terrible about it. We walked almost a strecth of 1km to find the nearest dustbin. While i was walking i saw a filthy rich woman with servants walking her dogs bought some Chana and threw the paper right near the dustbin. I stood in horror! You are much more educated than the Chanawala... what happens to the civic sense suddenly? Why curse anybody else that they dirty our city?

The Scarlette murder case was merrily covered by the police and when the case got international attention it had already tarnished the image of the country, our systems and our efficiency. Why would anybody want to believe we are sane and civilised people?

Its a case that when parents give too much freedom to their children they end up in a mess always. Freedom then goes on taking a few liberties... staying up late, staying over at friends' place, partying a LITTLE late in the night and so on.. that's just the beginning! And the day arrives when parents realise that the freedom which is so called "olryt" with them has gone too far! Same applies to the country. If our fellas were so capable of running the country or even contributing in teeny veeny way, don't you think we would have been better placed in the world map?

Look at the generation whom your allowing democracy for. Cinemas play national anthem and the caution says stand up so everybody stands. But recently the movie Krazzy 4 had the national anthem in it and the entire hall kept thinking and sat in a dilemma! We were a large bunch and we stood up instantly... while others got up looking at us. Why are we ashamed of standing up for the national anthem? Does it make you 'uncool'??? I was dismayed about the fact that the country will be full of more such people in the future who think 'liberty' is cool and democracy is civic book lesson!

Corruption is perhaps at its all time high, prices going up like there is no tomorrow, people destroying public and national property as of it belongs to their forefathers. I guess its time that the govt takes control of the situation in this country. Civics books need to be re-written and the generation needs to embibe democracy in their regular lives. Democracy means the you are party to all decisions to be made and that's your importance. I we were so capable we would not need heads to run the country. I really wish this country together with people solve the matter democratically! Let's all work towards a better future... nothing can stop us from bein a superpower anyway with our GDP crossing USA's in another 20 yrs, the future only seems brighter.

I am not democracy, i form the democracy... i am a part of it...