On the Big fight conducted by NDTV 24x7 the debate, on whether the gays / lesbians
have finally come out of the closet , remain inconclucive
Although the Roman catholic expresses no sign of arrogance against
the homosexual community bt the so called "good Priest" (who featured the show ) made
contradicting points as to whether the Church in India is in support or against the
"community", as it seemed to be so from the statement which he made indicating the
number of Homosexuals who have been converted into hetrosexual thru counselling.
A social club official was also on the debate counter arguing the
points made by the "Good Priest" & concluded that what needs to be changed is the
ideology of the people towards the gay & lesbian committee which i suppose was derived
from the view exppressed by an audience*(mother) on being posed the question of how
she would deal if her son/daugther came to her on one day and told her that he/she was
a gay/lesbian. The viewpoint of this official was convergent with that of another
Social Organisations' member Mrs. Anjali.
The viewpoint of the audience witnessing this debate was rather
mixed where on one hand there existed member audience who would not at all accept a
homosexual even as a friend & on the other hand there were people who "would not mind
having a gay friend but would definately mind having a gay roommate" Yet on another
hand there existed people who were willing to help the "community" to come out and
improve its acceptability.
It was rather surprising to find out that when the channel
conducted a general poll asking people around the question that whether the gay &
lesbian community have finnally come out of the closet, in Kolkatta where there was a
huge rally conducted by the gay community in the recent past, all the pollees
expressed a completely arrogant view against the "community". But a vary valid point
here made by Raajdeep Sardesai( the one conducting the debate) was that when people
realise that a sensitive question of this kind & thier answer was a public issue &
they would be on the TV screen where any one of their family members / friends could
be seeing them then it is obvious that people would be reluctant to express their true
opinion, which again brings us back to the social ideology point which was in the hot
seat of the debate.
In conclusion as for me the question still is that why has it
been forgotten or remains unknown that homosexuality is not a matter of choice and
rather a result of a complex interaction of the biological environment around us which
has been proven by many international studies.
As for the arguement on social ideology i would like to present a part of the work of
Karl Marx as interpreted by Prof. Oskar Lange that the social ideology forms a part of
the superstructure of an economic system along with the remnants of the past ideology
& the nuclei of the new ideology & a Superstructural change either requires a long
time period ( as we see in the case of the practice Sati & dowry killings, which still
exists in the Rural India despite all efforts by the social & political organisations
of the country to make people realise that these were wrong) or a Revolution all
together the best example of which is the Russian Revolution.
RSVP
Kunal Srinivasan
Sanjay Lulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi
Yes please do so in brief and secondly would someone
also please write in brief all the discussions in the
Bombay High? as to what issues are discussed what
conclusions are drawn etc etc. It would be very
informative to us people living outside the country.
Thanks
Sanjay
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