Masks and protests mark India’s gay pride parades
For the first time this year, gay pride was celebrated in four Indian cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. The parades were only little celebration however. In true style of their origins where gay New Yorkers marched to protest the Stonewall riots, they were mostly protestations of the anti-sodomy law under section 377 of the Indian penal code.
What is obscene about art?
When we have laws against obscenity, then we certainly need courts’ interference. But it’s meaningless to have a law against obscenity. What is obscene to you need not be obscene to me.
MF Hussain is the Indian painter notorious for painting Hindu Gods and Goddesses in the nude. This has, naturally, offended millions of Hindus leading [...]