{"id":42,"date":"2013-12-11T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/2013\/12\/11\/11-12-13-section-377-a-step-back-in-history\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T08:10:00","slug":"11-12-13-section-377-a-step-back-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/2013\/12\/11\/11-12-13-section-377-a-step-back-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"11-12-13, Section 377-A step back in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><i><b style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">377. Unnatural offences<\/b>: Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">That is the statement from Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, the crux of our judicial system. How such a vague statement was allowed to remain there is still a mystery for me.&nbsp;<\/span>One of the ironically funny status in twitter- the day Uruguay legalizes marijuana is the day India bans gay sex. The largest democracy which promises equal rights for all its citizens have just secluded some of them because of its archaic overview. Section 377 is a blot to our judicial system, and such a shocking verdict from the supposedly highest niche of our justice system is nothing but a grave miscarriage of justice, justice for someone who has been&nbsp;deprived&nbsp;of their right, the right to their own&nbsp;privacy.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">What I am waiting for is the publication of a set of manuals and possibly some illustrated examples of what exactly is not against nature, and the seeming proper, natural and moral way to engage in one of the most private activities of our lives..<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">But wait, we can&#8217;t do that either, because that will be too explicit for our tastes. We are good at preaching morality, religion and societal intercourse, but what we are not good at is change, because that is what our culture is about, a set of dogmas laid by our prehistoric ancestors and which we hold very dear because to change is against our culture.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">What should be our culture to live and let live, look at the more significant problems surrounding us instead of preaching the preferences of who someone does what with in the privacy of their homes, without apparently creating any noise. It&#8217;s time to grow up, look beyond religious interpretations because no religion preaches hatred, it&#8217;s only the people who preach them do, look beyond cultural preferences, because a culture is evolutionary, otherwise we could just try rubbing flints to create fire, and finally open ourselves up to people whom we just fathom to be different but are actually the same flesh and blood.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>377. Unnatural offences: Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. That is the statement from Section 377 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}