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Putting the love in law

The Supreme Court judgment on Sec 377 acknowledges the idea of love, often trivialised, as the essence of humanness itself

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LGBT activists celebrate at Carter Road. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar

LGBT activists celebrate at Carter Road. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar

Paromita Vohra"What makes life meaningful is love. The right that makes us human is the right to love." That is how the Supreme Court judgment, which read down Section 377, a law that criminalised same-sex relationships, begins. Love is the thing that makes change possible.

Love is the journey we make in order to accept someone different from us. Our desires, uncontrollable, undeniable even when unrecognisable, help us to cross boundaries, generate new emotional languages, which eventually render new social possibilities, and eventually new laws.

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