The battle is won, but even four years later, is it having the intended impact on the level of the street? Is the high court judgement trickling down, and is life actually improving for the gay community?

Legal researcher Gowthaman Ranganathan joins us as guest host and explains why high court judgements don’t always make a difference to people’s everyday lives. He tells us about a police case in Hassan, Karnataka, where 13 men had been arrested under Section 377, even though the law had been struck down years earlier.

Gowthaman talks to us about where this verdict intersects with class, caste and economic status and what true, inclusive, grass-roots change should look like. How might we redistribute not just equality on paper, but equality of wealth, of power, and of respectability.

Show Notes

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators.

The following guests appeared in this episode:

• Co-host: Gowthaman Ranganathan
• Vani Subramanian, activist
• Jayna Kothari, lawyer
• Jaya Sharma
• Maya Sharma, author and activist

References

Gay Priori, a book by Libby Adler