Ajit Arora

Review of Zee5’s 377 AB Normal – a half-hearted attempt to dramatize the historic SC ruling

The Rigveda, one of the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism, says –Vikriti Evam Prakriti, meaning what seems unnatural is also natural. Ancient India was quite open-hearted towards homosexuality in society, with detailed chapters dedicated to it in the Kama Sutra. Homosexuality continued to be accepted and approved of in India right till the middle of the nineteenth century. The advent of the British, however, put paid to the free-thinking era of Indian society. The colonial government criminalised homosexuality in 1861, under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Henceforward, | Click Here...