{"id":31924,"date":"2014-01-27T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T05:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=31924"},"modified":"2014-01-27T11:17:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T05:47:34","slug":"sc-ruling-section-377-ruling-hollow-shallow-vikram-seth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-ruling-section-377-ruling-hollow-shallow-vikram-seth","title":{"rendered":"SC ruling on section 377 ruling hollow, shallow: Vikram Seth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/supreme-court-to-hear-plea-on-abducted-odisha-legislator\/supreme-court-208\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19610\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19610\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-to-hear-plea-on-abducted-odisha-legislator\/supreme-court-208\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"135,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19610 alignright\" alt=\"supreme court\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court.png?resize=135%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"135\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>Slamming the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling upholding Indian Penal Code\u2019s (IPC)section 377, criminalising gay sex, celebrated author Vikram Seth on Sunday said the judgement was \u201cethically hollow and intellectually shallow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because a population is miniscule do you forgo their fundamental rights? Its ethically hollow and intellectually shallow,\u201d he said during a session at the third Kolkata Literary Meet here.<\/p>\n<p>The well renowned author of \u201cA Suitable Boy\u201d, he has been open about his criticism to the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>At the literary meet, the 61-year-old Padma Shri recipient passionately iterated that the law has brought homophobia into the nation and \u201cnot sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c377 is a foreign law. It is homophobia that came in with the law, not homosexuality. It\u2019s a part of our history till 1861. After the law was created, there was no turning back.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slamming the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling upholding Indian Penal Code\u2019s (IPC)section 377, criminalising gay sex, celebrated author Vikram Seth on Sunday said the judgement was \u201cethically hollow and intellectually shallow.\u201d \u201cJust because a population is miniscule do you forgo their fundamental rights? Its ethically hollow and intellectually shallow,\u201d he said during a session at the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[27648,27647,47765,27649,47774,47775,23371,27650],"class_list":["post-31924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-a-suitable-boy","tag-ipc-section-377","tag-news","tag-sc-ruling-on-section-377-ruling-hollow","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news","tag-vikram-seth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC ruling on section 377 ruling hollow, shallow: Vikram Seth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SC ruling on section 377 ruling hollow, shallow: Vikram Seth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-ruling-section-377-ruling-hollow-shallow-vikram-seth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SC ruling on section 377 ruling hollow, shallow: Vikram Seth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SC ruling on section 377 ruling hollow, shallow: Vikram Seth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-ruling-section-377-ruling-hollow-shallow-vikram-seth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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