The Myster Suici of an Outed Gay Indian Profsor

Contents:

• ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY
• THE MYSTER SUICI OF AN OUTED GAY INDIAN PROFSOR
• DEATH OF AMU GAY PROFSOR WRAPPED MYSTERY
• ALIGARH GAY PROFSOR FOUND AD, MAY HAVE KILLED SELF
• GAY AMU PROFSOR FOUND AD, SUICI SPECTED
• ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY
• WHEN ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY (AMU) KILLED A GAY PROFSOR #LGBTQIN PERSON PROFSOR S.R. SIRAS OUTSI AMU, FEBARY 2010. (PHOTOGRAPH BY JENR GUPTA) OUTLOOKWHEN AMU KILLED A GAY PROFSOR
• WHY A GAY INDIAN PROFSOR'S ATH SPIRED A FILM
• GAY PROFSOR
• AMU GAY PROFSOR'S ATH STILL A MYSTERY

ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY

Dr Shrivas Ramchandra Siras, rear and chairman of Morn Indian Languag at AMU, now says he won't challenge his spensn and would voluntarily 's cisn not to qutn his spensn has e as a relief to AMU thori, who are more than keen to bury the ``embarrassg episo'' as uld raise a ser issue of gay rights on the mp sce the profsor wasn't acced of any wrongdog or crimal actn. ''QnA: Although the HC has legalized homosexualy, is the Indian society ready to accept this cisn?

THE MYSTER SUICI OF AN OUTED GAY INDIAN PROFSOR

When a gay profsor at one of India's most prtig universi was found ad two months after vigilant barged to his hoe wh a vio mera and ught him a naked tryst wh a bicycle rickshaw driver, police nclud was suici.

He had been spend om his teachg duti for "immoral sexual activy" and publicly outed a society eply prejudiced agast gay people, and there was poison his activists and former lleagu of Shrivas Ramchandra Siras, a profsor of Indian lerature at Aligarh Mlim Universy the northern Indian state of Uttar Prash, are puzzled by a few odd tails of his ath—his cellphone was missg, his ATM rd was ed eher jt before or jt after his ath, and while the room where his body was found was locked om the si, the ont door of the hoe was bolted and padlocked on the outsi.

DEATH OF AMU GAY PROFSOR WRAPPED MYSTERY

What's more, he had jt been restated at the universy by virtue of a urt orr, and he had found iendship and support among those fightg for gay rights India.

Gay rights activists are hopg a film based on the story of closeted profsor Dr.

Even if the official explanatn of suici is rrect, the more than five-year-old se has bee one of the most proment tts of India's official and unofficial tolerance of homosexualy recent years. And while the Indian legal system failed Siras, his story may wd up dog more for gay rights than India's ually liberal urts. India's film dtry is generally as homophobic as s movi are mp, but director Hansal Mehta has ma Aligarh what the Brish Film Instute lled "probably the bt film yet on the Indian gay male experience.

ALIGARH GAY PROFSOR FOUND AD, MAY HAVE KILLED SELF

That would be a bold move a untry where thugs vandalized theaters and beat up a cema manager 1998 to prott a film that picted a lbian a renewed public bate India on homosexualy, Mehta says, "I would like to believe that [Aligarh] is already havg an impact. 'Profsor Siras was outed and spend om his job Febary 2010, says thor and gay rights activist Saleem Kidwai, durg a "wonrful ltle terregnum" when homosexualy was legal India. Known as Sectn 377, the law ma gay sex a crime punishable wh up to 10 years prison, and 2013 India's normally progrsive Supreme Court restated .

GAY AMU PROFSOR FOUND AD, SUICI SPECTED

Consensual gay sex that tak place private India is rarely prosecuted, but gay people are equently persecuted. Wh landlords liable to evict gay tenants and fai quick to disown gay relativ, blackmail is mon.

Cops routely mand brib or sexual favors om men ught cisg, and at several universi gay stunts face expulsn om dormori and even om Siras was outed, he was practilly visible.

Like many closeted gay men India, he was married, but separated, wh divorce proceedgs unrway. Official Shashi Tharoor to legalize gay sex.

ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY

"We found your lleague naked, engaged homo-sex, " a voice says. " Otherwise speakg Hdi, he says "homo-sex" English, as a sgle word. ""Siras did ht that [the mera crew] might have been workg on the beht of the admistratn, " says philosophy profsor Tariq Islam, who was stmental nvcg Siras to fight back and ntacted gay rights anizatns on his behalf.

WHEN ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY (AMU) KILLED A GAY PROFSOR #LGBTQIN PERSON PROFSOR S.R. SIRAS OUTSI AMU, FEBARY 2010. (PHOTOGRAPH BY JENR GUPTA) OUTLOOKWHEN AMU KILLED A GAY PROFSOR

In late 2013, the Supreme Court upheld Sectn 377 of India’s penal , reversg a 2009 Delhi High Court lg that the lonial-era law crimalizg gay sex was unnstutnal.

"Acrdg to Edmond, the last person known to have spoken wh him, Siras was talkg optimistilly about beg a gay rights activist or movg to Ameri to teach Marathi—a language spoken wtern India.

Gay stunts face discrimatn and harassment.

WHY A GAY INDIAN PROFSOR'S ATH SPIRED A FILM

Not long before Siras was outed, five stunts at a Christian llege Kerala were expelled for makg a film about homosexualy. 'Homosexualy Is a Disease'Progrs on gay rights India has been slow, but there has been some movement recently: Fance Mister An Jaley spoke out agast the Supreme Court's handlg of the anti-sodomy law, and December opposn member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor troduced an amendment to crimalize sexual terurse between nsentg adults, regardls of genr. Official, has vowed to retroduce the next, opn polls such as a 2014 survey by the Pew Rearch Center show that around two-thirds of Indians view homosexualy as immoral (the same percentage thks premaral sex is wrong).

As recently as 2009, almost as many believed homosexualy to be a disease, acrdg to one poll. While India's Natnal Crime Rerds Bure don't track homophobic crim, sexualy rights activist Gtam Bhan says there is a lot of anecdotal evince of faial vlence to enforce genr norms or force gays and lbians to arranged marriag, as well as school bullyg and reports of police beatgs and harassment. Apr 08, 2010 07:14 PM IST The ath of Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) profsor S R Siras, spend for allegedly havg gay sex and later restated, is still a mystery wh police today sayg uld be a se of suici or heart attack.

GAY PROFSOR

The ath of Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) profsor S R Siras, spend for allegedly havg gay sex and later restated, is still a mystery wh police on Thursday sayg uld be a se of suici or heart attack.

AMU GAY PROFSOR'S ATH STILL A MYSTERY

Siras, a Marathi teacher, was spend by AMU Vice Chancellor P K Abdul Aziz on charg of homosexualy after a stg operatn by a televisn channel showed him havg sex wh a rickshaw puller. LUCKNOW: Ls than two months after he was spend and hound out of his mp home on charg of havg nsensual homosexual act wh a rickshaw-puller, Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) teacher Shrivas Ramchandra Siras was found ad myster circumstanc at his rented sgle-room acmodatn Quarti police circle of Aligarh. Is Indian society ready to accept homosexualy?

Dr Sreenivas Siras, a Marathi profsor at Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) sacked for beg gay, was found ad on Wednday eveng. (Read & Watch: Back to my beloved AMU, says relieved Siras)Last year the Delhi High Court crimalised homosexualy. The ntroversy had re-igned the homosexualy bate on the universy's mp and both stunts and teachers stood divid.