The Myster Suici of an Outed Gay Indian Profsor

Contents:

• FIVE YEARS AFTER GAY AMU PROF'S ATH, LOVER BREAKS SILENCE ON AFFAIR
• 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
• 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
• ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY
• LAST WORDS OF AMU PROFSOR WHO WAS DRIVEN TO DEATH FOR BEG GAY
• TWO HELD AMU GAY PROFSOR'S ATH SE
• AMU GAY PROFSOR'S ATH STILL A MYSTERY
• FIRST LOOK: MANOJ BAAYEE AS GAY PROFSOR ‘ALIGARH’
• GAY PROFSOR
• GAY BATE AT ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY
• AMU GAY PROF ATH SE: PHONE GO MISSG
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• WHEN AMU KILLED A GAY PROFSOR

FIVE YEARS AFTER GAY AMU PROF'S ATH, LOVER BREAKS SILENCE ON AFFAIR

ALIGARH: A gay affair, an acclaimed profsor, his suici and a lover who kept silent on an agonisg event for four long years. I was not gay, but over time, we beme timate.

“He (Siras) was spend bee he was havg paid sex mp, not bee of his gay orientatn. "Why is homosexualy a crime India?

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? 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.

ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY

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. 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.

THE MYSTER SUICI OF AN OUTED GAY INDIAN PROFSOR

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. 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.

DEATH OF AMU GAY PROFSOR WRAPPED MYSTERY

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 . 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 GAY PROFSOR FOUND AD, MAY HAVE KILLED SELF

"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.

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. 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.

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

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. Based on the te story of the spensn of Prof Siras om the Aligarh Mlim Universy (AMU) on the grounds that he was gay, a large part of Aligarh’s source material me om the former Indian Exprs journalist, Sebastian’s nversatns wh the Febary 2010, Sebastian was a young 21-year-old cub reporter Delhi verg Higher Edutn the cy (and addnally Aligarh), when he was pulled up by his edor for havg missed the news of Prof Siras’ spensn om AMU. The brief given to Sebastian was to file a story wh an terview of the profsor on how is to be gay AMU.

ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY PROFSOR SPEND FOR BEG GAY

He was gay and he didn’t feel like he had to expla to anybody else.

LAST WORDS OF AMU PROFSOR WHO WAS DRIVEN TO DEATH FOR BEG GAY

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.

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. 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. As Aligarh, Hansal Mehta’s film on the ath of a gay Aligarh Mlim Universy profsor is about to be released, both cursy and ntroversy are back over the issue.

TWO HELD AMU GAY PROFSOR'S ATH SE

Ironilly, homosexualy is taboo this postlonial natn wh a history and culture where gay love and poetry have been no ls than legendary. It is rather a paful farce to hear nservative harangu agast gay love the media and elsewhere. The crimalisatn of homosexualy India me wh Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co, troduced by Brish lonialism.

AMU GAY PROFSOR'S ATH STILL A MYSTERY

Siras had been spend earlier by the universy for beg gay.

FIRST LOOK: MANOJ BAAYEE AS GAY PROFSOR ‘ALIGARH’

On Febary 2, the Supreme Court will beg hearg arguments on curative petns seekg the reversal of s 2014 verdict re-crimalisg homosexualy. This psyche was exemplified by those stunts who surreptly filmed Siras’s nsensual sexual act, as if Siras beg gay posed a threat to the paranoid norms of the hyper-mascule, heterosexual briga. Siras symbolised a llective e – of gay rights and a rpectful place for sexual mori Indian society.

GAY PROFSOR

The qutn of jtice Siras’s se enpassed a larger jtice which is awaed favour of the gay e India.

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? Most people would notice him but would not know April 2010, the suici of a gay profsor at AMU ma natnal headl.

Profsor Siras was gay.

GAY BATE AT ALIGARH MLIM UNIVERSY

And as happens wh the LGBT muny our untry, social persecutn pounds Profsor Siras’ tragedy is that this happened to him the perd when homosexualy was crimalised.

AMU GAY PROF ATH SE: PHONE GO MISSG

Durg the urse of those terrible two months, he told me that he was satisfied that he managed to keep this (homosexual) part of his life a secret. Siras'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.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

As the Supreme Court today hears a petn by activists whether the ban on gay sex India should be rensired and the movie Aligarh - based on the life of Aligarh Mlim Universy's gay profsor Ramchandra Siras - is slated to release this month, here's NDTV exclive terview wh the profsor 2010. Two people have been arrted nnectn wh the ath of Aligarh Mlim Universy's (AMU) Profsor Srivas Ramchandra Siras, police said on Murtaza and Shiraz, both lol journalists, rried out a stg operatn on the AMU Siras, a rear Morn Indian Languag, was found ad his private apartment outsi the universy on April, who hailed om Maharashtra and tght Marathi, was placed unr spensn by AMU Vice Chancellor P K Abdul Aziz on charg of homosexualy at his hoe si the mp after a stg operatn by a televisn channel which exposed him havg sexual relatns wh a rickshaw Allahabad High Court later revoked the spensn and orred his restatement after he filed an appeal agast the universy actn.

Last Updated: April 08, 2010, 12:55 ISTSrivas Ramchandra Siras was spend by the Aligarh Mlim Universy for beg gay. Siras, who was spend by the Universy for beg gay, was found ad on Wednday eveng at his rince.

WHEN AMU KILLED A GAY PROFSOR

He argued urt that the universy actn vlated the Delhi High Court orr crimalisg homosexualy.