Five men were arrested in Varanasi on June 23 after the Dashashwamedh police took suo motu cognisance of a video purportedly showing them cooking chicken and drinking beer on a small boat on the Ganges. The five were released on bail the same day. Curiously, the FIR mentioned Sections 196 (2) and 299 of the…
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When I first began the journey of writing The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa, I was struck by a persistent, troubling paradox. While the global north has seen a rapid incremental shift toward LGBT+ rights, the narrative in much of sub-Saharan Africa has often been one of stagnation or, more distressingly, active…
