If one might invoke mythology, the Supreme Court verdict is the ambrosia that has brimmed to the surface from a veritable churning of the ocean. It has been distilled by the collective efforts of strong forces of opposition, the toxic halu00c4u0081hala of the continual setbacks over a protracted legal struggle of almost 30 years now left in the mist. Jubilation is deserved and has been rightly earned by not only those who fronted the movement and the legal challenge, but everyone else for whom an inclusive world is not just a radical idea but a social imperative that must be guaranteed.

Stage
The verdict is a maelstrom that sets the stage for a much larger social and legal gambit, and the process of change is slow and arduous, just as achieving this first milestone has been. As a case in point, the United Kingdom, whose draconian laws clog our statute books, struck down its version of the ‘sodomy law’ in 1967, and it took 40 years more for same-sex civil partnerships to be recognised, paving the way to legalising gay marriage, with all its official and religious connotations.