SC 2018 Opinions

This is a collection of opinions and personal narratives about the Section 377 verdict announced on 6 September 2018 by the Supreme Court. Please let us know if we have missed any. The articles are listed in alphabetical order of author names.

• Section 377: Impact will be felt beyond India 
  AP Shah
• Section 377 is gone, but the fact that it took 71 years, and a court to do it, raises questions on Indian democracy
  Aakar Patel
• Section 377 verdict: How the rainbow war was won
  Aditya Bondopadhyay
• SC verdict on Section 377 won’t end fight against inequality; love is as much about caste, class and religious struggle
  Akhil Kang
• From today, I am not a criminal: Akkai Padmashali
  Akkai Padmashali
• 9 Years On, How Section 377 Verdict Vindicated Justice AP Shah
  Alok Prasanna Kumar
• Section 377 judgment could form beginning of a body of path-breaking jurisprudence in India
  Alok Prasanna Kumar
• Freedom’s second coming
  Anand Grover and Tripti tandon
• SC Read Down 377 And My Parents Told Me to Broadcast My Sexuality
  Arnab Nandy
• Section 377 Read Down, But What About Kashmir’s LGBTQ+ Community?
  Arshie Qureshi
• 377 verdict is a new dawn not just for LGBT rights but for individual liberties in India
  Arundhati Katju
• Rights over wrong
  Arundhati Katju
• Section 377: A greater transformation
  Arvind Narrain
• Section 377 verdict: Decriminalising homosexuality is a legal win but erasing social stigma will be a long and hard fight
  Ashok Row Kavi
• India’s judges make history on gay rights — while its politicians fail the test
  Barkha Dutt
• A law of its time
  Bibek Dibroy
• Section 377 verdict removes an albatross from many necks, but expect empire of majoritarianism to strike back
  Bikram Vohra
• Section 377 Verdict Should Be Treated as a Marker of Evolution of Mental Health Rights
  Chaitali Sinha
• The Section 377 judgment could be a victory for public health, if India’s health system steps up
  Chapal Mehra
• None of us are free till all of us are free: Why the 377 verdict is important for all Indians
  Chayanika Shah
• When the Constitution came out in flaming rainbow colours!
  Debjyoti Ghosh
• SC ruling on Section 377 has removed legal barriers, now emotional ones must be tackled
  Devdutt Pattanaik
• How a ‘pink book’ paved the way for equal rights for LGBT community
  Dhamini Ratnam and Dhrubo Jyoti
• A love without a name: Identifying homosexuality in Indian language and literature
  Dhrubo Jyoti
• ‘The tears are gone’: The journey of a queer person from 2013 to now
  Dhrubo Jyoti
• Section 377: The fight for LGBT rights has just begun
  Dhrubo Jyoti
• September 6 will go down in history as the day India became  .. 
  Elton John
• For all that we may become: on the Section 377 verdict
  Gautam Bhan
• Why the Judgement Scrapping Section 377 Is a Vision Statement
  Govind Manoharan
• Section 377 Verdict: Battle in Court Ends, the One at Home Begins
  Hardeep Singh
• A victory, a new battle
  Harish Iyer
• Section 377 verdict: Legally safe, socially targetted, Kashmir’s LGBTQ face a huge challenge of acceptance
  Ifra Jan
• The rainbow in our clouds
  Jayna Kothari
• Message from a father
  K.S. Vasudevan
• With the Supreme Court scrapping Section 377, can India’s queer movement imagine a life beyond it?
  Kartik Maini
• Why I played ‘Jab pyaar kiya’ on full blast in South Africa 
  Keval Harie
• Discrimination must be addressed without delay
  Madhu Mehra
• Freedom from Section 377: Supreme Court’s verdict is a crucial milestone in the long struggle for equal rights
  Manish
• Supreme Court’s Section 377 verdict: Straight people of India, this gayzaadi is yours too
  Manish Gaekwad
• Section 377 Verdict: Gay marriage, inheritance, adoption laws unlikely; ‘majoritarian’ view will keep State, SC away
  Markandeya Katju
• This is the start of a new era for India’s LGBT communities
  Mayur Suresh
• Section 377: SC has distinguished itself as an institution invested in protection of all Indians
  Menaka Guruswamy
• Section 377: Legalising homosexuality in India
  Mulay
• Section 377 verdict: Navtej Johar vs Union of India opens doors for broader rights for the LGBTQ community
  Namrata Mukherjee
• Section 377: Decriminalising homosexuality is great, but the fight for true equality is not yet over
  Nandita Saikia
• Supreme Court’s verdict on Section 377 must spark further legal changes to end alienation of LGBT community
  Natasha Maheshwari
• ‘Rainbow warriors’: Indians who fought against Section 377 have won a decisive victory for freedom
  Neeha Nagpal
• How to be a good gay and celebrate the end of section 377
  Nimisha Agarwal
• Section 377 Ruling May Be Landmark, but SC Is Yet to Pass the Real Test
  Nizam Pasha
• Sexual equality affirmed: on the Section 377 verdict
  Pulapre Balakrishnan
• Section 377 Read Down. But What About Women? Don’t Women Have Sex?
  Revati Laul
• Life after Section 377
  Rōmal Lāisram
• Life beyond Section 377: And we finally saw the sun
  Rōmal Lāisram
• A long & hard battle of a Sri Lankan activist for gay rights
  Rosanna Flamer-Caldera
• Now, there is a pink rupee in India, and may it appreciate
  Roy Sinai
• To love, live and laugh
  Ruchir Joshi
• Section 377: A battle half won 
  Ruth Vanita
• It was art that first decriminalised gay sex
  Sadanand Menon
• India decriminalises gay sex: Another win for the Supreme Court
  Sandeep Gopalan
• ‘You don’t hurt anyone by loving someone, no?’
  Sandip Roy
• Section 377: Whose Concerns Does The Judgment Address?
  Saptarshi Mandal
• Supreme Court judgment on Section 377: First step in long march towards full citizenship
  Saurabh Kirpal
• Section 377 Ruling: Pride Restored, Judiciary No More an Iron Cage
  Shashi Tharoor
• Here to Stay: Is India ready for decriminalisation of homosexuality?
  Shohini Ghosh
• 377 verdict lays ground for minority rights to be protected against majoritarian will
  Shoaib Daniyal
• Beyond Section 377: What About Inequalities Within LGBTQ+ Groups?
  Shreya Ila Anasuya
• Sec 377: SC has signalled a fresh phase in the evolution of rights jurisprudence
  Shyam Divan
• Love after the time of 377
  Siddharth Narrain
• Section 377: Court decision welcome, but will that change societal perception towards LGBTQ?
  Sugra Khanwala
• Section 377: Drawing a curtain on the past
  Suhrith Parthasarathy
• Forward-looking 377 order holds lessons for the world 
  Urvashi Vaid
• First person: How Section 377 was used as a weapon to blackmail gay people in India
  Vijay Hiremath
• Apology pending, in former colonies of British empire
  Vikram Doctor
• Section 377: The papers and the fight that finally got us here
  Vikram Doctor
• The rainbow flag flies with pride in India
  Vikram Doctor
• Supreme Court partially strikes down Section 377: For Dakshaben, with love
  Vivek Divan
• Section 377: If homophobia gave me moments of sheer terror, the verdict erased those emotions of pain and shame
  Wendell Rodricks
• Now, people like me won’t have to think about the ugly consequences before coming out
  Zara Sheikha
• Why Section 377 Verdict Should Be India’s Collective Heartbeat
  Zoheb Hossain