"My sexuality remained a secret between my mother, myself and a few close friends for another decade, till I was 25. And then it was the sexually liberated and tolerant milieu of 1970s London and Oxford that enabled me to “come out", though never as openly as in today’s climate. It was my sexuality and the apparent impossibility of fulfilling it in India that determined my decision to stay on in England as a sort of sexual migrant," Zorer Masani, son of politician Minoo Masani writes on being criminalised for his sexuality in India.
In the last few months, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has visited over two dozen temples during the Gujarat Assembly polls and stopped at various mutts and mandirs while campaigning in Karnataka recently. He is likely to do the same for the state polls in BJP-ruled Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Kailash Mansarovar yatra is an ultimate display of his religio-spiritual journey. Veteran journalist Saroj Nexi explores whether this is Congress's tactic to meet the Baharatiya Janata Party's 'anti-Hindu' allegations against the party.On reel
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