"This is the true and natural good/To undo justice, and to seek/To quash the rights that serve the weak". The poet responds to the Supreme Court's refusal to review its verdict criminalising gay sex.
'It is election time. Everyone knows the truth...the government knuckled under and enforced this disgrace because of power and politics and the misuse of religion'
BY Vikram Seth 29 January 2012
We, concerned Indian citizens, support the overturning of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a colonial-era law dating to1861, which punitively criminalizes romantic love and private, consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex.
BY Vikram Seth 15 September 2006
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