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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Pak .Gandu is Not Welcome to BigBoss S4 Immediately Remove Pakistani from the show Shiv Sena ( MNS )



Big Boss 4 contestants security threatened as Shiv Sena goons attack BB House

Far-right Hindu parties have one again shown their real face. Two prominent political parties of Mumbai Shiv Sena and MNS Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) are not happy with the new 'Bigg Boss' TV series that is being hosted by Salman Khan in the fourth season.

This time it has nothing to do with the presence of Khan. Actually their anger is guided towards two Pakistani artists who have been invited to participate in India’s popular show.

They are up against the administration. They are mounting pressure on the Big Boss administration to evict them from the show. This is not for the first time that they have raised their voice against Pakistanis presence in India. For long they have been opposed to Pakistan. They regard the Muslim country as India’s enemy number 1. Besides, they say that India should snap all ties with Pakistan as the country sponsor terrorism in India.

Since the show was introduced on Colors TV channel, the Hindu parties have been protesting their presence. The two Pakistanis are: model Veena Malik and TV actor Ali Saleem. It is important to point out here that Saleem is a controversial figure in the sense that his/her TV persona Begum Nawazish Ali is very popular both in Pakistan and India.

Shiv Sena Chitrapat wing chief Sangram Shirke said: "We request them to immediately remove Pakistanis from the show. Is there a dearth of celebrities in India that they must bring outsiders, that too from Pakistan?"  They have even written letter to the authorities, expressing their displeasure. However, till now the organizer of the show has not issued any comment on the controversy.

The Begum surfaces

Ali transforms into her Begum avatar to interview the nominated housemates in Bigg Boss today

Kunal Guha

After the announcement of the nominations yesterday, the mood in the Bigg Boss house was rather glum. So Bigg Boss decided to spice things up. The task allotted was to get Ali to transform into her Begum avatar and interview the four nominated housemates in the same bitchy fashion like she does on her chat show.

Bigg Boss also orders the housemates to look their best and orchestrate the show like a professional chat show. So they all get busy trying in picking their best clothes and accessories. But the most dramatic transformation had to be for Ali as it involved a complete makeover.

Ali begins with a shave and invites opinions from the female housemates to pick her attire for the chat show. While model Anchal Kumar is happy to help with makeup, Seema helps Begum with draping her pista-green-sequined sari that she dons with matching accessories. Once her makeover was complete, Begum hosted the chat show and entertained the housemates with her witty and rather candid questions.

One of her jabs at lawyer Abbas was, "Humne suna hain ki aap vakile safai ke saath saath vakile kasai bhi hai?" She also tells Seema, "Waise toh log kehte hain ki mein chorni hoon, par uske saath saath mein morni bhi hoon!"

Monday, April 5, 2010

"Bombay Gymkhana Kick OUT “ Kick Out & Kick Out > Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is Hijra , Gandu , 6 no ?


Hjiras and Dogs not allowed ???
Bombay Gymkhana Kick OUT
“ Kick Out >
Kick Out   "
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
is  Hijra , Gandu , 6 no ?  


 


Bombay Gymkhana  ???  Criminal Activies of MsM ,GAY, Hejads In BOMBAY  ? 
See the Police  recods Tell all Criminal  Activies of MsM ,GAY, Hejads  ??
past  years even laxmi come in kothi filed ?Msm Advcacy Encourages ? 






Fuck A Hejada’s Kinnar , Aravani’s in INDIA ? Hejad’s are Infected with HIV, STD, AIDS , ? Hejada SEXWORK Check Any CBO & NGO in INDIA ?  Hijra & Gandu, MsM  , UNO returned Hejada ? Laxmi Narayan Tripathi was thrown out Amchi Mumbai ??



 
 
Msm Advcacy Encourages ?
Fuck A Hejada’s Kinnar , Aravani’s  in INDIA ? Hejad’s are Infected  with HIV, STD, AIDS , ? Hejada SEXWORK ???
Check Any CBO & NGO in INDIA ?



Taking initiative
Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi,
Parmesh Shahani, an organiser of the conference, says that in the middle of the dinner, a senior official of the Bombay Gymkhana burst into the room and said that Laxmi had to leave. “It was evident that he said so because she was a transgender.” Following this, the dinner came to a standstill and everyone present left the venue, many mid-way through their meal. “I am heartbroken to watch such an incident take place before my eyes. She is one of the speakers we were most proud of and excited about. The idea of this event was to showcase India’s ideas to the world, and it is such an embarrassing thing for this to happen on its eve.”
Respect denied


Lakshmi told HT Café that she didn’t overhear what was said, but an organiser came up to her in tears and told her that he would lose his job if she did not leave. “Internationally, I am treated with such dignity. I am a respected person in society and I have never faced such discrimination in my life. When this club was run by the British, they had a notice outside that read ‘Indians and dogs not allowed.’ They should put up a notice now saying ‘Hjiras and transgenders not allowed,’ if this is how they feel. The transgenders are the oldest ethnic groups in India and what they have done is completely illegal,” says Lakshmi, who plans to file a police complaint soon. Daniel Carroll, one of the speakers, says: “It’s outrageous! Can you imagine TED was expelled from Bombay Gymkhana?” Despite several attempts, no one from Bombay Gymkahana was 


 

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Still remaining "Black Spots" in NACO ??????


  

Manipur's first gay marriage ends in 'divorce'


Imphal: The first-ever same-sex marriage in Manipur between two men in their 20s ended in a 'divorce' two days into their wedding following stiff opposition from their families.
Sandip, the 25-year-old 'groom', and Nikhil, the 28-year-old 'bride', who exchanged marriage vows on Thursday in the presence of a modest gathering at a community hall here, decided to end their marriage late Saturday.

Their families on Saturday filed a complaint with the local police station at Singjamei, seeking help to end the marriage.
"A police official called Sandip and Nikhil to the police station and counselled them for about two hours. The two men agreed to split and call off their marriage," a family member of Sandip told IANS.
The families were opposed to the marriage after the couple decided to enter into wedlock after a six-year relationship. They maintained it would be a scar on the families as gay marriage is still a taboo in society.
"We were deeply hurt and objected to the marriage. With no options left, we approached the police. They helped us not by force, but by reasoning and convinced the duo to change their mind and split," another family member of Nikhil said requesting not to be named.
The couple were staying together after their wedding at the beauty parlour run by Nikhil.

They exchanged bouquets and rings to wed. Sandip wore a black suit for the ceremony, while Nikhil was dressed in a white gown.
Soon after the wedding on Thursday, Sandip said: "I am blessed to have Nikhil as my wife. We are indeed happy."

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To
The Public Information Officer,

National AIDS Control Organization,
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,
Government of India,
9th floor, Chandralok Building,
36, Janpath, New Delhi-110001

Subject: An Application under the Right To Information Act to seek

information 



Particulars of Information required as follows:

1. What is was the selection criteria and the selection process of the the post of DG NACO?

2. Why NACO don't bother to reply to any citizen's e-mail like my mail to NACO D.G.?

3. Why "economic verification through the district magistrates" only, instead of Panchait, Municipal Authorities or Members of Legislative Assembly/ Parliament avail locally with Govt. Authenticity/Certification , which is also recognised and valid to access "Free Govt. Treatment for anybody and anywhere in India" to minimise harassment and/or to stop wastage of Time, Money and Energy of Urgently 2nd line ART Needed PLWH?
What could be an alternate user's friendly procedure?

4.Has the counselling set up at JNJP Hospital, New Delhi been rectified to ensure Audiovisual Privacy?

5. Does all NACO ART Centers ensuring Audiovisual Privacy throughout India?

6.Why SACEP meets only when a certain numbers of people are there say 15 people. So until and unless 15 people apply for 2nd line SACEP will not meet and sometimes 14 people have to wait for months and months, which can be fatal for the 14 people!

7.What is NACO's mechanism to ensure coordination about different life support equipments use for indoor treatment which are not available at any indoor treatment providing hospital( like Dialysis Machine is not available at STM, Kolkata), but available at other hospitals?

8. What is the detail report of "Mid Term Review of NACP-III" and recommendations?

9.Why still now GIPA Coordinator Posts in different SACS like MPSACS are still vacant?
Which are the SACS with ongoing GIPA Coordinator vacancy?

10.Please give us an up dated separate lists of ART Centers Providing 1st and 2nd line ART throughout India along with no. of clients?

11. Does NACP-III targets to cover all category of Indian Citizens about "Universal Access"?

12. What is the latest no. of infected people and no. of people on 1st line ART and no. of people on 2nd line ART?

Thanking you,

In Still remaining " Black Spots " in NACO ?? ,
Snehansu Bhaduri
49/A/1, B.P. Dey Street,
Serampore, Hooghly,
West Bengal-712201
Ph:033-26521519(resi)
Mob:9874693613

E-mail: snehansu.bhaduri@gmail.com
 

Monday, February 22, 2010

Aligarh Muslim University professor suspended for GAYSEX in Campas ?



Aligarh Muslim University 
professor suspended for GAYSEX in Campas ?














Gay sex’ stick for AMU professor
Lucknow, Feb. 16: An Aligarh Muslim University professor due to retire this year has been suspended for alleged homosexual acts in his campus residence, the charge sparking a row with activists pointing out that gay sex was no longer a crime.
The February 10 order against Professor S.R. Siras came seven months after Delhi High Court decriminalised adult consensual intercourse in any form in a landmark judgment now waiting for the Supreme Court’s verdict.
The university has asked Siras, who headed the department of modern Indian languages, to vacate his official residence.
“Yes, he has been charged with indulging in homosexuality in his official residence on the AMU campus,” spokesperson Rahat Abrar said. “He will now have to face a committee set up by the vice-chancellor.”
A bitter Siras today told The Telegraph he would leave Aligarh, where he has taught for 22 years, and return to his hometown Nagpur.
“I am 64 and in fragile health. The charge of active homosexuality levelled against me is absurd,” he said. “When the high court has decriminalised homosexuality, how can the university level such a charge?”
Siras, who has a PhD in modern Marathi fiction, said someone in his department had “framed” him.
“I remember that on February 6 evening, some unknown men barged into my residence and began recording me while I was talking to a young man I didn’t know. Before leaving, these men threatened to expose me. I didn’t believe them. But my worst fears came true when the university handed me the suspension letter.”
AMU sources said on February 8, some unknown complainants submitted to the VC’s office a video-recording of the professor “in an indecent posture” with a young man, said to be a rickshaw-puller in his twenties. On February 10, the authorities decided to suspend the professor.
“I was not asked anything. I was called by the VC’s office and handed over the suspension letter,” Siras said.
“To sound more real, the university might have accused me of indulging in passive homosexuality as I am too old for active homosexuality. But is that an offence?”
Mumtaz Alam, a gay activist in Lucknow, said homosexuality was still being branded a crime by some orthodox scholars unwilling to change their mindset.
A colleague of Siras said he should fight back. But Siras has refused to move court. “What is the point? They did this earlier against me in 1996, suspending me for the same fake charge and then revoked it.”
AMU spokesperson Abrar said Siras could defend himself before the disciplinary committee by citing the court order. “But this much we can tell you, the video clips we have received along with a complaint letter are really indecent.”









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LUCKNOW: An Aligarh Muslim University professor, on the verge of retirement, was suspended after some students set up cameras to catch him having consensual sex with a rickshaw-puller in his campus home, and sent the video film to university authorities. Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, reader and chairman of Modern Indian Languages at AMU, now says he won't challenge his suspension and would voluntarily leave. 

Siras's decision not to question his suspension has come as a relief to AMU authorities, who are more than keen to bury the ``embarrassing episode'' as it could raise a serious issue of gay rights on the campus since the professor wasn't accused of any wrongdoing or criminal action. Consensual sex with a same-sex partner isn't a crime in itself. 

``Siras was captured on camera having sex with a rickshaw-puller. It's a scandal that no institution of repute can overlook. Therefore he was placed under suspension on February 9 by the order of the VC, Prof P K Abdul Azis,'' said AMU public relations officer Rahat Abrar. 

``Dr Siras lived in a house allotted to him in the medical colony on the AMU campus. On February 8, he was home in the company of a young rickshaw-puller from Jamalpur area of the town. Since the door was open, two reporters from a local TV channel barged into the house and filmed him and his companion. The video clippings were then sent to AMU authorities who were constrained to proceed against Siras,'' said Abrar. 

Siras was served a memo on February 9 by the office of the AMU registrar, Dr V K Abdul Jalil, under rule 403-C of the statute of the university, after a prima facie case of ``gross misconduct'' was made out against him. Other disciplinary proceedings would follow only after framing of charges. 

Amid swirling tales of his ``sordid'' sexual preferences, Siras was quietly packing his bags. Talking to TOI over phone, he refused to contest the charges before any enquiry committee. ``Let them say what they want to. I am not going to offer any clarification,'' he said. ``You don't have to abuse back if someone abuses you. I am already on the verge of retirement and, therefore, would rather be gone than to stretch the issue,'' he said. This, the university authorities feel, ``is the only respectable and sensible option under the unfortunate circumstances.'' 

Thursday, October 8, 2009

If you are a homosexual you may be in for a shock ????

Instead of directing homosexuals to seek help from gay support groups they prefer to pursue
conversion therapy ???????


Each time a gay sees a picture of a naked man and is about to get an arousal, he is given an electric shock. Doctors from renowned institutions across the country are practising aversion therapy in the belief that homosexuality is a disease. Aman Khanna reports


anand naorem

Instead of directing homosexuals to seek help from gay support groups they prefer to pursue
conversion therapy


Eighteen is no age to be in the grip of neurosis. That’s not the time when you are drowned in the waves of depression. But when boys of his age were chasing girls with a spring in their walk, reading romantic poetry and sweating it out on cricket fields, Mahesh would sit in a dark corner at home and let an anxiety engulf him. He would think about the hostel mate he was deeply attracted to. Mahesh knew he was unlike the other boys. But he could not put his finger on the difference. When the depression became intense and Mahesh felt he was losing it, he decided to “address the issue”. He approached his family doctor. The physician said he didn’t know what was causing the depression and referred Mahesh to a sexologist. A famous practitioner in Mumbai, the sexologist told Mahesh he was suffering from a “disease” called homosexuality, but there was no cause to worry — the “disease” could be cured. He added he had cured many lesbians of the same disorder. The bottom line was clear: Mahesh was sick and he needed immediate treatment.
The much-promised treatment began, with the sexologist asking Mahesh to come back to him with at least 10 nude pictures of men in different poses he found attractive. “He said he would flash those pictures and at the time of arousal, he would administer shocks or impulses on my body,” Mahesh recounts, “As that was happening, he would flash pictures of naked women. And then, no impulses.”
Over a period of time, the doctor said, Mahesh’s mind would get averse to homosexual thoughts. The doctor said the treatment would take a long time. At the very least, four to five visits. The sexologist didn’t give a name to the treatment, but he promised complete cure. In clinical jargon it is called aversion therapy. Or as laymen refer to it — shock therapy. Mahesh came out of the clinic certain he did not want to take any treatment for his problem. He called up his family physician and said, “I think I will be able to handle it on my own.” He never went back to the sexologist.
Mahesh managed to escape without any shock, but there are hundreds, maybe thousands, who do go ahead with the therapy prescribed to Mahesh. Till this day, a primitive and obsolete treatment like shock therapy is being used on homosexuals across the country “to turn them into normal heterosexuals”.
Instead of directing homosexuals to seek help from gay support groups, sensitive to the feelings of homosexuals many doctors prefer to pursue a line of conversion therapy. That is, to convert them into heterosexuals. Most often, the doctors’ argument is — “What can I do if some people approach me for treatment? Do I turn them away?”

But you scratch the surface a bit and the real reason for continuance of such therapy emerges — it is the bias, prejudice and ignorance that still grips the majority of the medical fraternity in this country. Many psychiatrists and psychologists approached by this reporter perceived homosexuality as a “deviation”, a “variation”, a “disorder”. They see it as a deep psychological problem that can be cured by some old-fashioned techniques and methods. And aversion therapy, or shock therapy, just happens to be one of the magus’ tricks.


Damned Right: a recreated session of aversion therapy using models photo s. radhakrishna

Electrodes looking like “a headphone” were put on his head, and then he was senseless. Almost paralysed by the 110 volts

The electrical current passes through the bodies like hundreds of ants biting together, but it is the anxiety of anticipating a shock that is a thousand times more painful. They are made to feel guilty for the way they are
Arvind Narrain and Vinay Chandran have been fighting for gay rights in Bangalore. Last year, they interviewed numerous counsellors, psychiatrists and psychologists in India’s Silicon Valley to find out why they are still using aversion therapy to change people’s sexuality. In one of the interviews, a behavioural therapist reasoned: “Shock therapy causes as much tissue damage as anal sex. So, why fuss?” Lata Hemchand, a clinical psychologist based in Bangalore, was practising aversion therapy till four years ago, but now advises homosexuals to approach support groups which can really help them in overcoming the problems. She admits most medical practitioners still see homosexuality as a deviation that “has to be set right”.
Hemchand might have turned over a new leaf, but most doctors still see aversion therapy as a normal treatment — even in the best of neurological and psychological centres like National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (nimhans) in Bangalore. A clinical psychologist at nimhans confessed, on the condition of anonymity, that aversion therapy was used extensively in the hospital till four years ago. But, even today, it is administered sometimes as a part of the larger treatment of “orgasmic reconditioning” —
a therapy which requires the homosexual to think of the opposite sex just at the time of ejaculation.

There is more on offer at nimhans. MP Sharma, another clinical psychologist at the famous institute, told Narrain and Chandran that treatments include “psycho-education, cognitive restructuring, orgasmic reconditioning” and, of course, “aversion relief wherein we give them a mild electrical shock when they are watching homosexual imagery”.
The line of treatment is based on Pavlov’s work on conditioning. Russian experimental psychologist Ivan Pavlov rang a bell every time to tell his dog its mealtime. After some time, the dog began salivating just at the sound of the bell. The theory concluded that certain associations produce positive or negative reactions in one’s body. The same theory was first used for alcoholics and then extended to homosexuals.
The intention is to relate homosexuality with guilt and punishment. Two electrodes on Velcro patches are attached to the upper arm or the wrist of a homosexual. Sometimes it is attached on the thigh, too. On the other end is a small vanity box-sized transformer, which clearly spells out in large font size ‘Aversion Therapy Equipment’.

RAKESH kumar, 27
Travel agent, Mumbai

 
I was in school then, probably in Class XII. I was confused about myself; I liked both men and women, but mainly men. And it used to haunt me. There were times I used to get terribly depressed. I had no option but to meet a psychiatrist.
He is a famous practitioner in a reputed hospital in Navi Mumbai. He said, “You are going through a phase. It is an addiction, an abnormal behaviour.” The first day, he asked me to get a hiv test done. Then, he gave me injections. I don’t know what it was, but it would take care of my depression, it would cheer me for a while. Wherever he was, I would call and go over for an injection. He also put me on Prozac.
Once, he called an older woman to his clinic in the night. She must have been 25 or 30, probably a sex-worker. The doctor asked me to caress her and imagine that I was attracted to her. He wanted to prove to me that I will get a hard on. After a while, I told him it’s just not possible. But I was naïve; I carried on the therapy.
I was using my parents’ money to buy the medicines. Obviously, over time, they found the bills and approached the doctor.
When he called me up, I told him not to disclose anything of my sexuality.
He still did. I never went back to him after that.

In the first session the doctor measures the homosexual’s threshold of pain. The clinical psychologist jacks up the voltage step by step to find out how the homosexual feels. Does it hurt at all, or is the pain “mildly unpleasant” or painful? Once the individual says it is painful, the voltage is lowered by a few degrees. The pain threshold has been calculated. All shocks would be of this voltage. Just before leaving the homosexual is asked to bring nude pictures of men he finds attractive.
From the next session on, those nude photos are projected on a wall. Pictures of naked men interspersed with naked women. Every time a gay sees a picture of a naked man, and is just about to get an arousal, he is given a shock. And as pictures of naked women come on, the electrical wires are switched dead. The course is reversed for a lesbian.
The treatment usually continues for two to three months. About 15 shocks of 30 volts a session, one hour a day, two sessions a week. The ‘patient’ needs at least 20 sessions, each costing between Rs 200 and 500.
The electrical current passes through the bodies like hundreds of ants biting together, but it is the anxiety of anticipating a shock that is a thousand times more painful. “The harm is in the innocuousness of the whole thing,” says Narrain. Men and women are being made to feel guilty for the way they are.
Till a few years ago, the archaic therapy was being tried on cross-dressers too. They were made to wear “their sex’s clothes” and then given a shock. It was given up when success was found scarce.
Aversion therapy, though, is not the only trick up doctors’ sleeves; there are other therapies to do exactly the same. Male hormones are being injected into so-called effete men. In rural areas, health workers have come across quacks prescribing bizarre concoctions in green bottles and colourful pills to those not in touch with their masculine side.
Talking to Narrain and Chandran for their study, a famous sexologist in Bangalore, Vinod Chebbi, criticised aversion therapy because “it took pleasure away” from sex. But, in the same breath, boasted of his cure to homosexuality — replacement therapy. “I show a series of pictures of heterosexual activity. I teach them how to enhance pleasure by the use of lubricant,” he explained, “I give him an idea of what is the vagina and how one can masturbate with lubricant so that the organ slides into the vagina.”
Shockingly, at times, doctors even see electro-convulsive therapy (ect) — the shock therapy one usually sees in films — as an option. Aniruddha Bose was one of those who received ect. Twice.
Back in 1995, Bose was pursuing chemical engineering from Jadavpur University in Kolkata. He had always been good at studies in school and college, scoring high marks. But even as a young man, he never understood all the jabber about girls. With time, he became aggressive, even violent. His parents consulted a doctor and he, in turn, sent Bose to a private nursing home. They told him “homosexuality was not a good thing”, that “it caused aids”. On one of the visits to the hospital, he was told he would be given shock treatment. Even then he didn’t resist, thinking the doctors were there to help him out. His parents were not present there.
The male nurses held him down on a bed while the doctor placed a wooden block in his mouth. “I think it was to prevent me from biting my own tongue,” Bose says. Electrodes looking like “a headphone” were put on his head, and then he was senseless. Almost paralysed by the 110 volts. The shocks continued for three weeks. Twice a week. Every time, four or five people would come to his house and drag him away. He was put on a medication that still continues.



Sanjay Kumar, 32
Tailor, New Delhi

I was deeply troubled by my sexuality. I didn’t know what homosexuality meant. All I knew was that I was different. I had regular bouts of epression, but I couldn’t share it with my parents. Someone told me I could get treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. I went there with my friend. The psychiatrist told me, “It is unnatural. You aren’t supposed to be this way. Some day, you will have to get married. You can’t have children if you stay like this. You have to understand, the society doesn’t accept this.”
He first recommended shock therapy to me. He said I would be fine after just five or six shocks. But I said ‘no’. I was scared; I had seen people given shocks in films. So he put me on non-prescription drugs. He would pull them out of his drawer. I was supposed to take three doses every day. Each dose had four tablets – two white, one yellow and one brown tablet. He said it would continue for six months.

But, even after two months I didn’t feel any change. One day, travelling in a bus, I saw a sticker of the Naz Foundation India. I met a counsellor in their office, heard people discussing homosexuality. I owe a lot to them. I still feel angry at times. That doctor must have treated so many who were confused like me. There must have been so many who didn’t find any help.
And then it happened again in 1997. The same shocks. The doctor told him the therapy was because of his “orientation”. He said, “If you don’t give it up, you will have to be admitted again.” His sister-in-law said the same. Bose was admitted again in the same clinic in 1999 and then in 2002, but he pleaded not to be given shock therapy. His parents are old now, and Bose says he has forgiven them.
There appears no clear way to find the number of homosexuals undergoing aversion therapy each month, each year. Those who have experienced the trauma of receiving shocks are hesitant even to share it with gay and lesbian support groups. In any case, given the figures of gays and lesbians who approach mental health specialists for counselling, it must be large. All of it could stop only if doctors stop seeing homosexuality as a mental disorder.
But doctors argue they cannot be singled out for their prejudices because it is the society that sees homosexuality as an aberration. In fact, it is usually the parents who push their children to get such ‘cure’ of homosexuality. “If only my parents had listened, I wouldn’t have gone through all of this,” says Kiran David in a mellow voice. David was 17 when he suffered a nervous breakdown on realising the man he loved was seeing someone else. His parents admitted him to St John’s Medical College & Hospital in Bangalore. By the age of 18, David became a schizophrenic. He felt people were following him; his phones were being tapped. Today, David is 21 and still has to take anti-depressants four times a day. He can still have an erection, but because of the medicines can never ejaculate.
Till today, his parents have not mentioned the word ‘gay’ in front of him. Ironically, David’s father is a social activist who fights for labour and women’s rights, and his mother is a consultant in St John’s Hospital, the institute where he was admitted.
There are many like David. But the legal system, too, finds itself tied up when faced with an issue of treatment of homosexuality. In 2003, the Naz Foundation, a Delhi-based group working to prevent the spread of hiv/aids, came across a case of a homosexual who was being given non-prescription drugs for months at no end by a psychiatrist in aiims.

A petition with the National Human Rights Commission (nhrc) was rejected without delay. The unofficial reason given was — “Homosexuality is an offence under ipc. Do you want us to take cognisance of something that is an offence?”
Most doctors generally hedge the question — why treat someone when they don’t have a ‘disease’. They quote clinical jargon to
defend their actions. Homosexuality is generally broken into two conditions. If a person is comfortable with his or her sexuality, it is called ego-syntonic homosexuality. And if they are ill at ease, it is called ego-dystonic homosexuality. Doctors claim they have to treat those who are unhappy with their sexuality, even though the American Psychiatrists’ Association had declassified ego-dystonic homosexuality as a disorder in 1988.


None of the psychologists and psychiatrists approached by this reporter was even sure if aversion therapy works. There are no recent studies to support a change in sexuality by shock or any other kind of therapy. Even the anecdotal evidence given in the therapy’s defence is suspect.
A few years ago, Hemchand, the Bangalore-based clinical psychologist, used aversion therapy on a middle-aged man who was under family pressure to tie the knot. He returned with his wife a few months later, claiming riddance of the disorder. “But I knew,” Hemchand says, “He was probably deceiving himself.” Everybody this reporter spoke to recollected their experiences not with sorrow. Everybody, instead, spoke of it questioningly, wondering what wrong did they do. As a counsellor who realises the futility of such treatment puts it, why should they be punished for living naturally?

April 09, 200

Moily defends move to let off Quattrocchi
Favours opening up legal sector to foreign firms
R Sedhuraman
Legal Correspondent

New Delhi, October 8
Exuding confidence that the proposal to open up the legal sector to foreign law firms will benefit young lawyers, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily today defended the CBI’s decision to withdraw the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the alleged Bofors payoff.

Covering a wide-range of issues in an inter-action with the media, Moily refused to specify whether Karnataka High Court Chief Justice PD Dinakaran would be elevated to the Supreme Court despite allegations of amassing huge wealth.
Constitutional authorities responsible for the appointment of judges would not go by “perceptions, impressions and controversies” but by “hard facts and evidences.” Queried further, he said none of the constitutional authorities was “bankrupt of ideas” on how to deal with such situations and that nobody could “hinder or obstruct” the process.
Asked about throwing open the legal sector, he said he had discussed the issue with several delegations of young lawyers who were enthusiastic over the move as they felt that they stood to benefit the same way the country’s IT professionals did. Why anyone should doubt the competence of the country’s lawyers and deny them the opportunity to go global, he wondered.
However, the final decision on the issue would be arrived at in consultation with the Bar Council of India and other stakeholders.
There was a move to set up four law colleges of excellence, one each in every region, on the lines of National Law School, Bangalore, whose students were the most sought after by leading law firms, national and international.
The government decided to withdraw the case against Quattrocchi in a Delhi trial court as it could not succeed in the courts of Malaysia and Argentina to get him extradited. Asked why the move had come 20 years after the registration of the case, the minister counter-questioned the reporter: “Do you want to have silver and golden jubilees” of the case?
He refused to comment on the apex court’s appeal in the Delhi High Court on the issue whether the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) fell within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, stating that the matter was sub judice.
On Section 377 relating to sex among consenting same-sex adults, he said the Cabinet had taken a decision to assist the apex court in deciding the case.
Asked about UPA ministers travelling by business class on flights despite booking tickets in economy class, he said he travelled economy class and had not engaged CIDs to spy on his Cabinet colleagues.
A new, comprehensive Judges’ Inquiry Bill was almost ready and would be put up for Cabinet approval shortly, Moily said.
To a question on the absence of reservation in the higher judiciary, he said the SC collegium was making all efforts to provide for adequate representation to all sections of society and to all regions.


Top UN AIDS official urges India not to waver in fight against epidemic




UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe with Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Mr Dinesh Trivedi.
8 October 2009 – The role of India’s political leadership is vital to ensure that the country with the highest number of HIV-infected people in Asia achieves its goals of universal access to prevention, care and treatment by 2010, according to a top United Nations AIDS official. Making his first visit to the world’s second most populous country in his official capacity, Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Executive Director Michel Sidibé met with Indians ministers and other officials, congratulating the Government for the progress made in its response to HIV.
He praised the results achieved by the Health and Family Welfare Ministry and National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) in expanding access to treatment beyond targets and implementing programmes which are having a positive impact on HIV transmission rates in the a country where an estimated 2.4 million people are living with HIV.
Mr. Sidibé urged Dinesh Trivedi, India’s Minister of State for Health, to guard against complacency towards HIV in the face of other emerging challenges such as H1N1 flu and climate change-related health issues. He appealed for India to strengthen its role in the UNAIDS programmes and become a donor to UNAIDS in view of the country’s increased political and economic status in the world community.
For every 100 people living with HIV in India, 61 are men and 39 women and prevalence is high in the 15-49 age group. As in most of Asia, the epidemic is concentrated among key populations at higher risk of HIV, such as sex workers, drug injectors and homosexuals.
Mr. Sidibé expressed his support for the recent decision of a Delhi court to annul Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalized homosexuality, a breakthrough for rights groups that strengthens the NACO’s efforts to reach out to people at higher risk of HIV, such as men who have sex with men and trans-gendered people.
The Commission on AIDS in Asia, an independent body, has noted that India has significantly increased domestic spending on HIV in recent years, accounting for nearly 50 per cent of the country’s total AIDS budget.

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

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Centre declines to take stand on gay sex
New Delhi, Sep 17, DH News Service:

Refraining from taking any stand on the politically sensitive issue of gay sex, the government on Thursday left it to the Supreme Court to decide on the correctness of the Delhi High Court’s verdict that legalised homosexuality.


Centre plays it straight. AFPThe Union Cabinet decided to ask the Attorney General G E Vahanavati to assist the Supreme Court on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code relating to gay sex. The Government said that it was up to the apex court to decide on the law.

“The Cabinet considered the report of the Group of Ministers and decided to ask the attorney general to assist the Supreme Court in every way desired in arriving at an opinion on the (Delhi) High Court judgment,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said.

She was addressing a news-conference after a meeting of the Union Cabinet, which was chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The Supreme Court had sought the government’s opinion after a Christian organisation and a disciple of Yoga Guru Ramdev approached the apex court challenging the Delhi High Court’s July 2 order that legitimized homosexuality between consenting adults.

The Government had constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to shape its opinion on the sensitive issue. The GoM comprised Home Minister P Chidambaram, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Law Minister M Veerappa Moily.

GoM suggestion

The GoM is believed to have suggested that the Government should not oppose the Delhi High Court’s order, but should also refrain from taking a stand, but leave it to the Supreme Court itself to decide.

Sources said that the Government had refrained from taking a stand on gay sex considering the political sensitivity of the issue.

The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) too has of late moved the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court’s order. The statutory body for protection of child rights has petitioned that the dilution of Section 377 of IPC has legalised one more way of sexual exploitation of children.

The Section 377 of the IPC defines homosexuality as unnatural sex, which is punishable with imprisonment up to life. But the Delhi High Court on July 2 struck it down stating that it violates Article 21 (Right to Protection of Life and Personal Liberty), 14 (Right to Equality before Law) and 15 (Prohibition of Discrimination on Grounds of Religion, Race, Caste, Sex or Place of Birth) of the Constitution.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Child rights panel moves SC against gay ruling


The statutory commission for protection of child rights has petitioned that the dilution of section 377 of IPC has legalised one more way of large scale sexual exploitation of children.

A bench comprising Justice B N Agrawal, Justice G S Singhvi and Justice M K Sharma, after hearing the plea, issued notices to the Centre, NGO Naz Foundation and others on whose petition the high court had held that criminalisation of gay sex among the consenting adults was violative of fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution.

The bench also tagged the petition of DCPCR with other similar appeals on which the notices have already been issued and posted the matter for hearing on October 1.

Senior advocate Amarender Sharan, appearing for DCPCR, said dilution of the penal provision will have pernicious effects on children.

The bench, however, wanted to know whether DCPCR had intervened in the matter before the high court. At this, Mr Sharan replied in negative and said it was doing so now as DCPCR, after going through the judgement, has filed the appeal as it is a statutory commission for the protection of children.

The petitioner commission submitted that plethora of scientific research highlighting the problems of homosexual behaviour and their serious impact on child welfare was not brought before the high court which held that the homosexual behaviour is normal.

“The high court did not have the benefit of scientific studies and on a very scanty, selective material has passed the judgement holding that the homosexual behaviour is a normal behaviour”, the petition said.

The commission contended that gay sex would adversely affect the physiological and mental development of a child and the high court has failed to take into account the problems encountered by homosexuals and their outcome on society at large including children.

The commission further said that the age of 18 years to define adulthood for consensual homosexual act in private is unreasonable as the age is characterised by changes and turmoil where the inquisitiveness and peer group pressure play a major role in the personality development of a child.

The apex court had earlier issued a notice to the Centre on a petition filed by a Christian body, a disciple of yoga guru Ramdev and astrologer Suresh Kumar Kaushal seeking a stay on the high court order legalising gay sex on the ground that it will have a catastrophic effect on the society’s moral fabric.

All the petitioners have sought setting aside of the high court verdict legalising gay sex between consenting adults in private, which was earlier a criminal offence punishable with upto life imprisonment.

Delhi child rights panel moves apex court on gay sex

Delhi's child-rights panel on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court opposing a high court ruling decriminalising homosexuality, saying it would permit sex between men as young as 18.
The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) in its lawsuit pointed out that the laws of the land prevent men below the age of 21 from marrying women and even countries like the United Kingdom permit homosexuality between adults above the age of 21.
Admitting the lawsuit, a bench of Justice BN Agrawal and Justice GS Singhvi issued notices to the union government and the civil society Naz Foundation, seeking their stand on the Delhi High Court verdict.
The high court had in early July decriminalised gay sex between two consenting adults, acting on a lawsuit by the NGO Naz Foundation. The union government has so far not challenged the verdict.
Appearing for DCPCR, former additional solicitor general Amrendra Saran sought immediate suspension of the high court ruling, but the court slated the matter for hearing on Oct 1.
In its lawsuit, the DCPCR said it was "constrained to move the apex court challenging the high court ruling as the high court has failed to take into account various aspects related to homosexuality, which actually adversely affect the physiological state of a child".
The DCPCR lawsuit pointed out that for the purpose of consensual gay sex, the Delhi High court ruling has considered a person of age 18 years or above as adult.
"But it is pertinent to point out at this stage that the Sexual Offence Act, 1967 of the United Kingdom partially decriminalizes homosexual acts in private between two males, both of whom must have attained the age 21 years," said the lawsuit.
"So even in the society like England, the minimum age for homosexuality in private is 21 years," said the lawsuit, adding the Delhi High Court's act of allowing homosexuality at the age of 18 years is "unjustified and without reason".
"In other words, the maturity and inability to comprehend the consequences of an act is not well developed in an individual of 18 years," said the lawsuit.
"Ironically, the high court ruling allows 18 year old men to indulge in homosexuality, while even the law of the land bars men's marriage below the age of 21 and girl's marriage below the age of 18.
"Even psychologically and physically, the age of 18 years is the age of changes and turmoil where the inquisitiveness and peer group pressure play a major role in the personality development of the child," said the DCPCR lawsuit.
The lawsuit said the high court appeared to be influenced by the fact that homosexuality has been legalized in some Western countries like the Netherlands, Canada, Belgium, South Africa, Norway and South Africa, which, however, are culturally very different from India.
The lawsuit contended that India and China, which are home to over two-fifths of the world's population, have entirely different cultures.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

World Premire.....377 Ka Ganda me danda




Over 20 boys say Abdul Rashid Sheikh repeatedly raped them for four years. The man still roams free. Meet Mumbai's newest...

Married dad of four, Abdul Rashid Sheikh allegedly sexually abused over 20 young boys repeatedly and then secured their secrecy by threatening them with physical harm.

Sheikh allegedly knew all the victims and, in fact, in some of the cases, Sheikh and the boys' parents were family friends.

Traumatic: Atif Sheikh, 16, said he was raped seven times over a period of four months and was forced to watch porn films
Last week, six children, abused when they were between 15 and 18 years old, finally summoned the courage to tell their parents, who, in turn, filed a complaint with the Vakola police.

Afroz Rehman (name changed) who was allegedly abused when he was 16, said, "Uncle ruined my life.

I was too shocked to come to terms with what had happened to me, but I knew it was terribly wrong.

But I did not have the courage to tell anyone. I hope he stays in jail forever."

Porn CD

Afroz said he was first shown a porn CD and then raped, repeatedly.

Yet, Sheikh has not been arrested. Senior police inspector at the Vakola police station, Anil Kharade said, "We have registered the complaint, but have not yet arrested him because we are awaiting concrete evidence.

Only a few boys have come forward and recorded their statement, and that is not enough."

Despite requests by the desperate parents the Vakola police only registered an FIR under section 373 of the IPC (buying minors for purposes of prostitution) and section 377 (unnatural sex).

However, IPS officer-turned-lawyer Y P Singh said the man should have been arrested.

"If the children have come forward and a complaint has been filed, the police should have arrested him immediately. They have enough grounds to arrest him."

When told that the police wanted more evidence, he said, "The statements of the boys are evidence.

Forensic tests need to be conducted at his home where the incidents took place and physical evidence like the porn CDs need to be confiscated immediately."

Teacher held for sexual abuse of students

PUNE: The Alandi police on Friday arrested a 24-year-old teacher at an ashram near Alandi for alleged sexual abuse of his students for the last
two months.

The police have identified the suspect as Vighneshwar Patil of Jalgaon. The incident came into light when a 14-year-old student disclosed the incident to his parents, said inspector Ratansinh Rajput.

"We have booked Patil under section 377 (unnatural offences) of the Indian Penal Code. The suspect had sexually abused five other students also from the ashram," Rajput said.

Rajput said that, according the complaint, the suspect used to call the students to his room and, on the pretext of massaging his hands and legs, used to sodomise them.

"There are 16 boys studying at the ashram. The suspect had abused five of them in the last two months. We are investigating whether other students have also been abused," Rajput said.

Delhi man who raped teen in Germany 12 yrs ago held

NEW DELHI: Law-keepers finally arrested a man who allegedly fled from Germany after raping a teenager there 12 years ago. Jaswant Singh (36) was
arrested by the crime branch of Delhi Police after German authorities approached them last year through the ministry of external affairs. Singh reportedly runs a transport company in north Delhi.

Singh was arrested from his residence in northwest Delhi's Adarsh Nagar on Sunday night. He had allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl in a park in Germany's Darmstadt on the night of August 1, 1997, along with two friends. The accused will be tried in New Delhi as Berlin has not sought his extradition.

The arrest follows "painstaking'' investigations for over eight months after Germany approached New Delhi last year. Singh, who hails from Miani in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, allegedly dragged the girl, who was walking home after missing a train, into a park and raped her. "He slapped her when she resisted and then raped her. His two friends Karan Singh and Mohd Shahzad, a Pakistani national also raped her,'' said DCP (crime and railways) Neeraj Thakur.

Singh, who was illegally staying in Germany, left for Holland soon after his two friends were arrested and then reached Delhi. The involvement of Singh and two others came to light when the owner of `Le Petit' restaurant, where he was working as a chef, overheard two workers talking about the incident and informed police about it.

Following the tip-off, two of the accused were arrested by the German police on August 5, 1997 while Singh managed to escape. A German court sentenced Shahzad to eight years imprisonment, while Karan was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. The victim had identified the two in court while she identified Singh through his photographs.

Singh had gone to Germany in 1992 and had sought political asylum, which was later rejected. However, he continued to stay there illegally. "Since he had been living in Germany since 1992 as an illegal immigrant on fake identities, German authorities were unable to get much information about him except his name,'' Thakur added.

The German embassy forwarded copies of the case record to MEA in 2008 with a request to initiate criminal proceedings against Singh. "We had a name and a place of birth. Information regarding persons with similar names and description who had arrived from Germany over the past few years were gathered. Sources were deployed and persons engaged in facilitating immigration were also tapped,'' said a senior police officer.

"Singh never expected to be caught after 12 years for a crime he committed in another country,'' added the officer. Singh got married in 2000 and has two children. He had been booked under Section 376 (2) (G) (gangrape), Section 377 (unnatural offences) and Section 341 (wrongful restraint) of Indian Penal Code. IPC Section 4 (trial of a person committing crime in any part of the world) has also been invoked against him.