![]() The two plays in this volume leap across court transcripts, affidavits (real and imagined), archival research, and personal memoir. In Love and Reparation, Danish Sheikh navigates these questions with a deft interweaving of the legal, the personal, and the poetic. “LGBT persons,” the Court said, “deserve to live a life unshackled from the shadow of being ‘unapprehended felons.’” But how definitive was this end? How far does the law’s shadow fall? How clear is the line between the past and the future? What does it mean to live with full sexual citizenship? The Supreme Court of India ruled that Section 377, the colonial anti-sodomy law, violated the country’s constitution. On September 6, 2018, a decades-long battle to decriminalize queer intimacy in India came to an end. Two plays about the legal battle to decriminalize homosexuality in India.
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