Ashok Row Kavi

RSS flip-flop on homosexuality indicates gay men in India remain in exile, writes Ashok Row Kavi

My submission to the RSS is: “You’ve come a long way. Now listen to the scientific evidence". The World Health Organisation has removed homosexuality from its list of mental diseases over two three decades ago. The Indian Psychiatrist Association has officially given a clarion call that homosexuality is a “normal variant of human sexual behaviour”. And it’s time you moved on homosexuality too.

Binayak Sen to Irom Sharmila: A look at India's post-independence social activists

It's not just politicians, India's social activists have brought about considerable changes in the country in the last 68 years of independence. Here's a look at some of the prominent social activists born post-independence.

SC verdict on 377 tells gays to 'Go in a closet and die': activists

GS Singhvi ruled that the courts do not have the the appropriate authority to strike down the section 377 which criminalises homosexual acts and that it was the parliament which has to legislate upon the matter.