By: Aparna Vengakkad

You know you guys, this may have occurred to some of you--but, this may be a strategy of divide and rule (we Indians know all about it). Try and give some scraps to some discriminated section of society and make them feel slightly safe so that they fall out of the resistance. Not that that can work when so many are working against it. But, I think in the case of civil rights and freedoms, an all or nothing policy--civil rights and protections for all and not just one set of minority or sex or gender and no compromise on anything may be a much better and more long term and stable resistance. Something like what I hear the Women's March had on their agenda. I don't mean any offense to any of you by this; just decided to share something I have thought about a lot--as in, I have wondered if the current govt. in India were to suddenly decriminalise same-sex sexual acts, whether I'd vote for them; despite the fact that they have been promoting irresponsible and damaging Hindu nationalism (which is both dangerous and against our country's nature; but what do they care?).