Expounded Ideas

“ A ccepted societal values. Complete Havoc. Necessarily between opposite sex. Institution of marriage. Sanctity. Sacrament. Sanskar. Holy Union.” ‌The Centre in its 56 paged reply to the petitions seeking recognition of same-sex marriage on March 12th, deemed such wordings appropriate. Of course, it implies the blatant disregard of historical and mythical materials and facts. But it also indicates the self-colonial hangover we as citizens are afflicted with as we enter the 76th year of our independence. And Indians backing a foreign draconian law in pre-2018, infamously known as S. 377 of Indian Penal Code , to protect a supposedly inherent ‘Bharatiya Sanskriti’ by suppressing their own fellow countrymen, was just one symptom among many, still dormant ones, of the ultra-conservationist pandemic India is suffering from. ‌With no vaccine out yet and further hindrances in production of any such antidote in the form of Centre's recent archaic submissions against recognition of s...