Topic: Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India.
1. Four years since the landmark LGBT verdict, but for the Indian LGBTQIA+ community, a truly inclusive society remains a distant dream. Comment. (250 words)
Difficulty level: Moderate
Reference: Indian Express , Insights on India
Why the question:
On September 6, 2018, exactly four years ago, in Navtej Singh Johar and Ors v Union of India, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court, in a beautifully elaborate decision, liberated LGBTQI Indians from the darkness of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Key Demand of the question:
To write about the discrimination and injustice faced by the LGBTQIA+ community in India.
Directive word:
Comment- here we must express our knowledge and understanding of the issue and form an overall opinion thereupon.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Begin by giving context.
Body:
First, write about the issues faced by the LGBTQ+ community – Many families especially in the rural areas are homophobic and transphobic and often treat people from the community to have some kind of psychological disorder.
Next, mention about issues such as forced rapes within families, admission into hospitals for change of sexual orientation, medical institutions admit people from the community along with other psychologically disturbed and conducting some psychological and sexual experiments, instances of suicides, families abandoning those who come out leading to financial insecurity etc.
Conclusion:
Conclude with a way forward to achieve true inclusion.
