Finally, the verdict is out on the same sex marriage. And I'm here with honour who has always supported LGBT Q I community always been there for them. Uh, on Tell me what has been your reaction after reading what has been happening since yesterday. Actually, there was a lot of, uh I was anxious at the same time, I was actually much more hopeful. And it kind of takes me back to 2013 when there was a huge sense of disappointment with the Supreme Court verdict. And now, of course, there's a lot of, you know, statements that were made by Justice Sandra Ch, which is extremely heartening and important, you know, be it the directives to the police, be it saying that transgender man and a transgender woman can marry. But being a gay person, I think it's extremely disappointing that the bucket is passed on to the legislative, which unfortunately is governed by an extremely majoritarian World Bank politics. And you know that. You know, sometimes you think that you have spent a lifetime waiting and again now you're waiting and you are at the mercy of people who are primarily a lot of them are homophobic, you know, and it's kind of also extremely unfair. It makes you think that why my life is dependent on judgement, where no one from my community has any say in what the judgement would be. You know, there is no representation of the community deciding what is OK for our life. And even in the Parliament, you know, there is not. I mean, though, we are told that you know, we are a sizable population, even if it's a minority. It's not a tiny minority, but we don't have any such representation in the Parliament or anywhere in court to actually be deciding about what should happen with our lives and as equal citizens in this country. It's extremely disappointing to see that again. It is a process where you know there's no time frame line either. You know, the the judgement says that the centre should address these issues, but there is no timeline. It can just, you know. Yeah, we have seen that nothing was done by this government when it came to decriminalising homosexuality until the Supreme Court took it up and we were all hoping that this would be the same there are of course challenges of, uh, you know how things can be amended. But I think if you want a better world, if you want a world where we all are more equal, that can be done and that's I agree with you. But can you tell me now? Like you said, there's no timeline to it. Anything that you wish they would have said better. Like Like you said, a timeline should have been given. Are there other pointers that you wish the judges would have given the centre so that it could have been done more quickly or can be done more quickly? I feel the most important thing to say that this is not something that needs to be discussed about not cannot be decided by majoritarian views, but it is a basic right to be treated as equal in a democracy. And there has to be a timeline to make sure that the legislative has to adapt this. No, it's not a choice. They need to implement this because it is. It is a flaw in the system that does not allow us and that needs to be corrected. It's not. It's not something that has to be discussed because, like the attorney from the government it is known is going on and on about you know, it being in Western culture. And we need to know, you know, So it comes from homophobia. It comes from ignorance, and it comes from and also it's dangerous because it perpetuates lies, uh, about someone else's identity. And I feel that to be left at the mercy of this people is, uh is not a nice feeling. Have you been talking to your friends about it? What? What family thing? To the news. And before it, I was thinking that Oh, maybe after a lifetime of waiting, you know, you grow up watching movies where you see a man or a woman tell each, you know, proposed to one's partner, you know, for being together and you think that OK, maybe finally I can tell someone Will you marry me? But it doesn't look like that. I all I can say is I'm really sorry that you are so disappointed, but there's always hope, right? That's what we have been doing. Thank you so much. This is abira from Mumbai for ND TV
