We all like wearing sunglasses and we all have different preferences for the shape, size, shade and the brand. We all feel that wearing sunglasses enhances our looks, we feel more confident and appear to be dudes/dudettes and now instead of following the old fashioned, hand shaking with our friends, we tend to clench our fist and punch it in the air and instead of saying “Hi! How are you?”, we now say “Hey dude ! Whatsup?”

So by just putting a plastic frame and a dark glass in front of the eyes our entire attitude changes, think about the kind of mental blockages we create when we tend to look the world through the shades of false impression, shades of judgmental understandings and with the shades of preconceived notions? Our society is full of preconceived notions. If a woman is raped or faces a sexual harassment, then instead of helping her in the recuperation process by saying she is a rape survivor, she is termed as a rape victim. Such rigid notions of righteousness and fallaciousness make the victim weak and the recuperation process lengthier.

A perfect example is the recent order by the Hon. Supreme Court upholding the Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code, according to which same gender sex, is to be punishable by law. According to the SC, gay sex in unnatural but scientific research shows otherwise. A person is homosexual not by choice but by birth. The genetic coding of the DNA decides the sexual orientation of a person. So in other words a person is homosexual in the womb of its mother and even before it is born. Now that means even the conception of a homosexual child is also unnatural. These thoughts now force the Hon. SC to define what is natural according to them?

According to an estimate around 7-13% of our population are homosexuals. Even if we consider only the adult population of our country, i.e. 760 million, then the number of homosexuals is anything in between 52 million to 100 million. Now just imagine if these 100 million people get together and start their protest for freedom. For them it is like the first war of independence of 1857, because in any case even in a free democratic India they are been treated like criminals, as they are not allowed to assuage the most basic urge of any living organism, that is, sex.

Homosexuals and their families face a lot of social stigma and for them finding even the basic amenities like job, renting a house etc becomes an uphill task. The Hon. SC by scrapping Article 377 could have given a new lease of life to these people but unfortunately, homosexuals will have to wait for some more time to attain 100% liberty. Section 377 was enacted by the British 153 years ago and we are still following it. Why? Because we are not able to remove the shades!