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Capital Interview – Mr Seth’s Suitable Girl

by The Delhi Walla - 6

The author of A Suitable Boy talks to The Delhi Walla.[Picture by Aradhna Seth; Interview by Mayank Austen Soofi]Fifteen years after writing that wrist-breaker, A Suitable Boy (ASB), one of the longest novels in English language, Mr Vikram Seth is all charged up about its sequel — A Suitable Girl (ASG). In an e-mail interview with The Delhi Walla, Mr Seth, who divides his time in Delhi and United Kingdom, confessed that he is excited about the idea of a boy looking for a girl this time; rather than the opposite in ASB. The boy will be the grandson of the memorable Lata Mehra, that fussy heroine who had taken a whopping 1,488 pages and 591,552 words to

City Reporting – Delhi High Court Legalizes Gay Sex

by The Delhi Walla - 9

First comments, first reactions. [Text and picture by Mayank Austen Soofi] Shock. Disbelief. Euphoria. These were the first emotions experienced on 10.35am, July 2nd, 2009, in the jam-packed chamber one of Delhi High Court as a bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Murlidhar legalized gay sex among consenting adults. “I’m standing in the High Court right now and everyone around me is just sobbing,” said a tearful Ms Rituparna Borah, a 28-year-old lesbian who is not ‘out’ at her office. “Finally, the dream has come true,” she said. The bench held that the law making gay sex a criminal offence violates fundamental rights. As soon as the judgment was delivered, people present in the court started crying, jumping, and

First Thought – Freedom at Midmorning

by The Delhi Walla - 16

The Delhi walla's pretension in writing makes me want to lodge a bullet in his balls - Blogger Nimpipi, the woodchuck chucks GO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries.Delhi High Court has legalized homosexuality.[Text and picture by Mayank Austen Soofi]As the news broke on July 2nd, 2009, that the Delhi High Court has legalized homosexuality, I tried hard to maintain my outward calm of a reporter. Our tribe is not supposed to get ecstatic or heartbroken no matter what’s the breaking news. So here I was trying to write a story as if it was just a story. But when I called gay and lesbian friends who were present in the court, asking them for 'quotes', I couldn’t

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