14 December 2013, 09:58 AM IST
I won't mince my words.
Bigotry is an Indian essence. One doesn't need historian Herbert George Wells to divulge the details. A cursory glance in the past will highlight the present.
The country has the longest list of goddesses and yet not very many days back had thrown fresh widows to the fire. This is a country where wine and warmth walk hand in hand with thirst and cold. This is the birth place of ambiguity where veiled idealism and virulent prejudice are one and the same expression.
The recent verdict by the Indian Supreme Court will shock the world but not the avid lover of Indian History. This inherent cyclical, repetitive quality will frustrate the modern society but not the architects of modern India. Such is the intolerable tolerance of Indians.
It is acceptable to draw revenue from international tourism thronging the holy walls of Khajuraho temples replete with lesbianism but to think of a female kissing another female in real life is sacrilegious. It needed a million rapes to stir the Indian Court hardened in insensitivity. Rape from opposite sex thrives in the same land where same sex love gets criminalized.
If the verdict disturbs me as a human, it horrifies me as a physician.
Coming at a time when UNAIDS lauds India's impressive performance in curbing down incidences of AIDS, this verdict is a walk straight back to the mud. Let us remind ourselves how good Indian health system has performed in its control of AIDS.
According to a new UN report which praised India's contribution to AIDS response through manufacture of generic antiretroviral drugs, new HIV cases among adults have declined by half in India since 2000. UNADIS further reports, that India already provides substantial support to neighboring countries and other Asian countries - in 2011, it allocated 430 million dollars to 68 projects in Bhutan and across key socio-economic sectors, including health, education and capacity-building.
And this is exactly here where the court verdict comes out as primitive and pathetic.
In matchless insipidity, the Indian Court fails to fathom the Indian connection with HIV. Literature clearly points out that in India; men having sex with men (MSM) for obvious stigmatized reasons do not come out as homosexuals and actually harbor female partners. The consequences are easy to fathom and fatal. As serodiscordant couples (infected males in the company of uninfected females), the risk of transmission is unlimited.
The more we criminalize personal choices, the more we cloud the society. A meaningless darkness that can only harbor hunger behind closed doors. Good luck to the tireless social worker trying to spread the good words of safe sex and proper education.
Which homosexual will come out and seek education on HIV if we have thrown the entire palette of criminal colors on his or her face? What mawkish moral justice is demonstrated when one completely shuts off visibility?
Who exactly are these men and women stalking the corridors of Indian Supreme Court?
But that is another matter.
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