Bengalu: Rerd holdg human puter, Shakuntala Devi wrote a pneerg book llg of crimalisatn of homosexualy supportg gay IAS hband
Contents:
- I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE INDIAN ARMY, I'M GAY AND VERY PROUD
- WHEN IAS HBAND’S SEXUALY MA INDIA’S ‘HUMAN COMPUTER’ FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- WAS SHAKUNTALA DEVI’S HBAND GAY?
I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE INDIAN ARMY, I'M GAY AND VERY PROUD
I feel that sce I served the ary, my story n touch the liv of gay men currently servg - perfectly fe, profsnal, f and discipled officers and soldiers - who are beg forced by homophobic polici to hi themselv out of fear of discrimatn/persecutn." emprop="scriptn * gay ias officer in india *
While Shakuntala Devi’s extraordary abily to solve plited arhmetil problems wh apparent ease and astonishg speed astound the world, we are equally awe of how and why she led a fight agast the crimalisatn of homosexualy. One would prume that the realisatn that she had married a gay man would have turned her world upsi down.
It probably was a ep shock, but Shakuntala rose above and ma a genue effort to study the plight of the gay muny India. While still married to Bannerji, she started speakg to members of the gay muny still ‘ the closet’, same-sex upl livg abroad and India. Compilg her rearch and terviews her book, ‘The World of Homosexuals, ’ she tried to brg their stggl to the notice of the mastream.
Today, the book is also nsired to be one of the first prehensive studi of beg gay India, makg Shakuntala Devi revered as an early pneer morn India’s fight for gay rights.
WHEN IAS HBAND’S SEXUALY MA INDIA’S ‘HUMAN COMPUTER’ FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
“My only qualifitn for wrg this book is that I am a human beg, ” she had documented, llg for “full and plete acceptance, not jt tolerance and sympathy” for those who intify as gay.
“This nceptn of homosexualy as a ‘ndn’ and the behavur supports merely operat as a form of social ntrol a society which homosexualy is nmned… The time is overdue now, when rather than pretendg that homosexuals don’t exist, or hopg to eradite them by the sheer weight of disapproval or prison sentenc, we face the facts squarely the eye and fd room for them so that they n live unfettered and unmolted, and make their ntributn to the mon good of muny. While Shakuntala Devi is renowned across the world for her numeril prows, we firmly believe that her story of g to terms wh her hband’s closeted sexualy and beg a csar for gay rights serv to be highlighted and appreciated so much more.
(Eded by Gayatri Mishra). IAS ban gaye matlab woh fertiliser ka kaarkhana bhi chalayega, chemil ka kaarkhana bhi chalayega, IAS ho gaya toh woh hawai jahaz bhi chalayega.
WAS SHAKUNTALA DEVI’S HBAND GAY?
In a siar ve, I don't see my future workplace (or even India self) beg a place where openly gay folks n live a life ee of harassment and csant quiry. Same-sex marriag are neher a part of “our culture” nor a part of the law, Solicor General Thar Mehta told the Delhi High Court Monday, opposg a petn mandg marriage rights for the gay muny unr the Hdu Marriage Act is the history of same sex marriage India? The Act merely difi the Hdu law and don’t try to ero the valu imbibed wh the Holy 11th-century Sanskr text, the Kathasarsagara, provis the same explanatn for cross-class and cross-ste upl who want to are difficulti fac by LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] muny?