A Queer Case Of Modernity

Our country is still battling for free sexual choice. High Courts and Supreme Court are severely paranoid, trying to overcome the dilemma of prejudice and humanity. Gay, Lesbians, Transsexuals and the very existence of a third gender have finally been salvaged from the closet and are burning quite strongly in front of our eyes. We, the Heterosexual beings, who rigidly defining ourselves as “straight”, seldom fail to realize that “homosexuality” is not a crime, not a disease it’s just “different”. Our minds are so very conditioned by social binaries that the concept of “difference” is about to extinct from our society. Complexity of a human mind can never be theorized. It’s a failed attempt of categorizing human minds into “male” and “female” that has led our whole existence into a big confusion. Some Ramdev or the other has always been there to suffocate social emancipation for some vast unknown reason. There is a fear that the “queer” people when liberated would wear their sexuality in their sleeves. This fear itself shows that how crooked our “straightness” has made us! Time has arrived for us to respect the individuality of every social being. We need to understand that not everything in this brave new world abides by binaries and norms. There is more to life than petty stereotypes. A note of appreciation for My Brother Nikhil and a comic interlude of “kantaben” or Dostana show but little of our awareness. True awareness can only be achieved when we will learn to discard voyeurism and to respect personal privacy. Let us break free and wake up into a morning that is more “humane” than “normative”.

(published in Telegraph Young Metro)