Raw Ink January 2014 | Page 41

Prison Break Two friends having coffee in their college canteen... Sid: (reading the newspaper) hey look at this, the Supreme Court has criminalized homosexual intimate relationships. What Nonsense! Tomorrow they will ask the whole country to be celibate for life! John: So what? And why should I care about it? Sid: it doesn’t make sense! C’mon! Punishing people who chose to be together in a relationship and think of a life together is ridiculous. John: I know it is ridiculous! But Sid our society is full of such incidents. Take Amir for example, his parents won’t let him marry a girl he loves because she belongs to a different religion. Sid: it’s sad how we let the society norms decide what is right and wrong. John: It sure is.*sighs* “Barriers” are something that we face in our everyday life. Obstacles and rules some of them which are psychological, judicial and some physical. They are present around us and at times make sense but at times they make us question the whole dynamics of the world. India which is known as the world largest democracy, passed the r ձ