| Name |
Views and Comments | Date |
| Raj Malhotra |
I believe every thing think that exist in nature is natural, as homo sexuality exists it is natural ,,, God is the creator ... How He can be wrong..If India was such a liberated country about sex,,even now we worship Lord Shiva in the Ling form ,, which itself is a sex symbol..So why so much taboo about sexuality ? Gay , lesbians , or transgenders ae also humans ,, they must have right to live for love... |
6/12/2009 |
| Rahul Tiwari |
Great Kanika India is like this because we have people like you ....every mother with such children deserves the condition in which India is ..... |
1/1/2008 |
| zahoor indien |
sex is very good thing do with your father first thank you kanika |
9/19/2006 |
| Helen |
This was a very interesting article. I am a American lesbian and recently watched a movie called,'Fire.' It was an amazing film and its only made me want to know more facts about the gay and lesbian community within India.Thank you for having written this. |
9/14/2006 |
| Interlingua |
An interesting topic, but the author, whoever that was, seems to want to think only in terms of extremes. The extreme of "India as repressed" is rejected entirely and we're told that we should belive in "India as totally free." Both of these are foolish ideas.
We're told that ancient India was an almost perfectly liberate place and "such a liberated society could not, ever, have seen homosexuality as unnatural." But the sloppiness of the author is such that s/he makes explicit reference to a variety of punishments for same-sex activity, this in a period more than a thousand years before the British arrived.
Likewise, we're told that "[before the 19th century, in Europe] there was no scope for sex being a pleasurable activity, and that is where the Indian culture differs." Only someone lacking even the most superficial understanding of Europe could say such a thing. Has this person never heard of Ovid, Rabelais, Rubens, Casanova, Pepys, Boccaccio, Blake, the troubadors, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Fragonard?
In short, the topic is interesting, but this article does a dreadful job of discussing the material. |
6/28/2006 |
| Joey Mills |
The History of our ForeFathers cannot be considered ancient, and why its your title I don't understand because I don't see them mentioned them in the entire article. And considering all our Fore Fathers were Christian men and that is what this country itself was founded in they would be discusted in what they see in what they risked their lifes for. Imagine being a Christian and looking at what you ricked your life for and it being a country of Atheist, and Homosexuals. I would be and am Discusted. I beleive in Human rights and all but, When it come to Homosexuals trying to take the Sancity of Marriage a progress in which was founded by and threw Judaism, I am discusted. I can't come to see why someone that is Gay or lesbian would want to Marry IN the Christian or Jewish faith. There must be certain bounds in which the Human Rights law can go One man can not kill another so on and so forth. |
6/9/2006 |
| shyam |
a masterpeice of research! |
5/24/2006 |
| ms |
Shame kanika goswami! this article has been copied, almost word for word, from the following article -
gaybombay.org/reading/art0001.html |
3/19/2006 |
| akanksha |
vous bet |
10/6/2005 |
| g.p.mishra |
The article seems to be comprehensive and lot of study has been put in,
Some details of influence of mughal era should have been appropriate,else it was fabulous |
3/22/2004 | |
