From today’s Hindu Sunday Magazine:
These women left socially secure marriages with men to find love, respect, and authenticity away from the rigid family structure.
“Why is it that I can’t be someone at 20, someone else at 30, and someone quite different at 40? Sexuality is exploration.”
The year I turned 40, I decided to leave my marriage of 17 years for a woman. This is not an easy sentence to write, and I understand that in the process I may hurt a few people — I have a son, and parents, and an ex-husband who I am still very fond of. Love has no reason and sometimes takes on strange shapes that are inexplicable.
But writing about something that is a lived experience for me, and concealing my name would mean that I am operating from a place of shame, guilt, and fear, built up over decades, like thick castle walls. Individually, they can be deadly; together, they can erode, until you forget who you really are. And authenticity is having a moment — at least in my life.
Mine was not a journey towards lesbianism at all, but a connection with a person who happened to be female.
Continued in the link below.
Ramit
March 12, 2023
The Supreme Court will hear the same-sex marriage petitions tomorrow. The govt has filed its opposing stand.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/same-sex-marriage-case-marriage-has-a-sanctity-to-it-is-a-holy-union-between-man-and-woman-centre-tells-supreme-court/article66610499.ece
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Ramit
March 12, 2023
On donating, the blood is first tested. If it is found to be healthy only then is it transfused to the other person. And yet, the govt insists on keeping gay men, trans people and female sex workers from donating blood. It first made guidelines in this regard in 2017. And when it was challenged in the Supreme Court, it supported its stand two days ago citing ‘scientific evidence’ and saying ‘public health perspective must trump individual rights’.
But it’s not about individual rights, it’s about not discriminating. Barring a healthy individual from donating blood is demeaning and dispiriting. At a time, when the govt should help de-stigmatise certain groups, it’s further propelling the stigma!
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/health-ministry-supports-2017-guidelines-that-exclude-transgender-persons-msm-and-female-sex-workers-from-donating-blood/article66607022.ece/amp/
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Ramit
March 12, 2023
In today’s The Hindu Magazine, Skull India Programme article was very funny. Not able to find its link online.
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Ramit
March 12, 2023
In contrast to the main post of this thread is the latest movie Gulmohar, streaming on Hotstar. It stars Sharmila Tagore as Manoj Bajpayee’s mother!
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