Celebrations are still underway in Germany after the country legalised same-sex marriage. Rainbow-hued reports everywhere stated how the German Parliament passed the legislation only a couple of days after Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would allow politicians to follow their own conscience, rather than toe the party line on the subject.

On Saturday, this paper ran a report in which the city’s gay community was cheering the “fall of the conservative Berlin wall”, if we may say so. But that brings us to the question, when will India open up to same-sex marriage? Perhaps it’s laughable to speculate on this subject as our country is still fighting to remove Section 377 from the IPC.