legalize gay sex

Prominent overseas Indians Vikram Seth and Amartya Sen have called for the repeal of India's anti-sodomy law, a holdover from the Raj. However, with attitudes toward homosexuality still very negative--many confusing homosexuality with pedophilia and backing the "unnatural" tag of section 377 with table-thumping enthusiasm--I suggest that the campaign will have to continue a few more years. That's not to say "India isn't ready," parroting the argument of the bigots who oppose a repeal of the law. It's just to say that there are too many bigots, and too few people brave enough to oppose them. Two or three years ago I unwisely wrote an article about the anti-377 campaign that implied the Supreme Court was close to a repeal--I won't say the same again.