I want to haul you down to a Love Court You’ll get the notice any day now Probably on pink paper Or atleast an angry shade of red It’ll come enveloped in a heart-shaped folder Which you’ll have to rip apart at the seams But then, you’re good at that kind of thing - Aren’t you ? You broke my heart in...
Blogs by Danish Sheikh
We’re fast approaching the 2nd of July : the date of the Naz Foundation judgment. You know the one, the one with the operative paragraph that went something like this : We declare that Section 377 IPC, insofar it criminalises consensual sexual acts of adults in private, is violative of Articles 21, ...
Hello. Made it ? Decided to Come ? Right. Welcome. Or Not. Newbie, THIS is why you should RUN for your life in the other direction : 1) Heard about places in the middle of nowhere ? Well, get to the middle of nowhere, then take a left, and go down a 2.8 km stretch. That’s Nalsar. We’re 25 DAMN KM fr...
It’s that time of the year again. Different queer collectives across the country are gathering round to discuss pride events. There are talks of pride this year commemorating the anniversary of the Naz Foundation judgment - the 2nd of July. Others would like it shifted to the less punIshing winter m...
It happened in the middle of a particularly stressful assignment. There I was, sitting at my laptop, at the desolate hour of 2.20 AM, when I decided. Enough. Nyet. Nimph. Nope. No More. I’d had it. And before I knew it …. I was ….. Composing Poetry. Yes, you read that right. I was spewing down line ...
NALSAR, like any other law school worth its salt, comes with its own bundle of ridiculous neuroses. What would be special about a place where the machinery gears towards making things convenient for you ? Of course, there’s inconvenience, and then there’s evil. The college’s system of surprise tests...
“ There is a moment that comes in your life, if you’re queer. It’s a moment of utter loneliness, when you realize that the world isn’t exactly designed for people like us. At this point, we scavenged. We took the novels we read and changed the pronouns of the protagonists. We saw films and changed t...
It started with Foucault. “Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same … let us leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order.” A good way, we felt, to headline the invitational notice of a forum whose primary aims include questioning the identities w...