On 17 October 2023, the Supreme Court rejected the plea for queer persons' right to marry. A year later, a discussion on lawyer Rohin Bhatt’s book discloses what went wrong.
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SC considering broadening scope of Gender Sensitization & Internal Complaints Committee. Changes come after lawyer Rohin Bhatt wrote to CJI to end 'discrimination against queer community'.
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The Hindu religion based on which his party runs its political business, acknowledges not just same sex relationships but also marriage, writes Raj Gopinathan.
At Hindu College, Zakir Husain College, Jesus and Mary College, and Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, the demands of students for a queer collective are met with resistance, ignorance, indifference, and even threats by authorities.
Delhi lawyer Rohin Bhatt got 'death threats' after his letter to CJI came out in public domain. He sought inclusion of section in SC advocates' appearance slips for mentioning pronouns.
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Report on impact of AI emergence—drawing upon depositions from several ministries—confirms that the developments come in the absence of AI laws or considerations over them.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
The issue is that India does not have a common civil code. So this is not about one law being changed, it is one per religion, plus special marriage act. And if it is religion based what is the authority of the Supreme Court of any country to decide what is allowed for a religion. Hence the dilemma. In order to do this, there should be a uniform civil code that gives the courts the authority to decide on this or issues like this in a denomination non specific manner
The fact that there are no comments here shows that this isn’t a subject too many people care deeply about, as opposed to the west, where it has been co-opted by one side of their cuture wars. I think the most sensible thing would be to have a civil union kind of thing which disregards sex and orientation. But can the court mandate that it exist to safeguard queer rights under India’s constitution? Governments may just ignore the court, as they have before. The time for this idea has just not come yet in India.
The issue is that India does not have a common civil code. So this is not about one law being changed, it is one per religion, plus special marriage act. And if it is religion based what is the authority of the Supreme Court of any country to decide what is allowed for a religion. Hence the dilemma. In order to do this, there should be a uniform civil code that gives the courts the authority to decide on this or issues like this in a denomination non specific manner
The fact that there are no comments here shows that this isn’t a subject too many people care deeply about, as opposed to the west, where it has been co-opted by one side of their cuture wars. I think the most sensible thing would be to have a civil union kind of thing which disregards sex and orientation. But can the court mandate that it exist to safeguard queer rights under India’s constitution? Governments may just ignore the court, as they have before. The time for this idea has just not come yet in India.