Shashi Tharoor : "I have argued for the elimination of Section 377 not because it restricts sex but because it restricts freedom. I believe strongly that the government has no place in our bedrooms." india

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One example of this lies in the way the massed ranks of the BJP benches rose in the Lok Sabha to thwart my attempts to introduce a Private Member’s Bill that would have decriminalized all sexual relations between consenting adults. I have argued for the elimination of Section 377 not because it restricts sex but because it restricts freedom. I believe strongly that the government has no place in our bedrooms. Unfortunately, we have a government that is not only happy to peek into the bedroom but to intrude on the kitchen, inspect the contents of your refrigerator, tell you when you must stand to be truly nationalist and what words you must mouth to prove your Indianness. The least a government can do if it does not wish to “direct” Indians towards liberalism is to stay out of the way and let them determine for themselves how they wish to live.

Other interesting part from that article :

"I believe that we need to move India into a more liberal direction, in keeping with the values enshrined in the Constitution. But we have a government that embodies the most conservative aspects of society, and unlike our very first government, refuses to guide the polity to a more liberal space."

Submitted April 27, 2017 at 02:21AM by SangeetKhatri http://ift.tt/2pnqCiG india