Saturday, December 21, 2013
Via JMG: INDIA: Government Asks Supreme Court To Review Anti-Homosexuality Law
The Indian government yesterday petitioned the Supreme Court to review its decision to reinstate the criminalization of homosexuality.
The government asked the court to review its order saying it believed it "violated the principle of equality". There has been outrage over the ruling seen as a huge blow to gay rights. There have been street protests and many activists and even government ministers have criticised it. "The government has filed the review petition on Section 377 in the Supreme Court today. Let's hope the right to personal choices is preserved," Law Minister Kapil Sibal tweeted on Friday. In its petition filed in the Supreme Court, the government says "the position of the central government on this issue has been that the Delhi High Court verdict... is correct". The Supreme Court's earlier order was widely criticised in India. The president of the ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi described it as "an archaic, unjust law" and Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the ruling had taken India "back to 1860".Very encouraging.
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma December 21, 2013
Basho on Haiku
If
you describe a green willow in the spring rain it will be excellent,
but haiku needs more homely images, such as a crow picking snails in a
rice paddy.
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- Basho (trans. Robert Hass), "Swamp Marigold"
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