Vikram Seth just sent this to the Times of India. It's a poem on the Supreme Court ruling on Section 377, recriminalizing homosexualilty in India.
Through love’s great power to be made whole
In mind and body, heart and soul –
Through freedom to find joy, or be
By dint of joy itself set free
In love and in companionhood:
This is the true and natural good.
To undo justice, and to seek
To quash the rights that guard the weak –
To sneer at love, and wrench apart
The bonds of body, mind and heart
With specious reason and no rhyme:
This is the true unnatural crime.
Vikram Seth
Forward it to those who matter.
http://krishnakumarv.tumblr.com/post/74921327602/through-loves-great-power-through-loves-great
2 comments:
Just curious: how did your parents react to your orientation?
His mother wrote an essay here about it: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/20/india-youre-criminal-if-gay/
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