I Am Divine

Published on 7th September, 2018, on Quartz India. The following are ideas based on karmic faiths that can be used to affirm the dignity of queer people: 1. There is no concept of judgement day in any karmic faith. God is no judge. There is no such thing as eternal damnation for anyone, which includes queer people. 2. Nature/God is infinite (ananta). Infinity has no boundaries (rekha), no divisions (khanda). It is fluid like a river. It includes the queer. The human mind is finite and limited and so cannot understand everything. We have to accept even that which makes no sense to us, with ..

Published on 23rd January, 2018, on harperbroadcast.com . (Please note: These rituals cannot be considered as sanctioned by any religious authority. Also, same-sex relationships are not recognised by the state of India. Hence, conducting this ritual neither implies religious endorsement nor legal sanction.) In Hinduism, gods and goddesses marry. Hindu temples routinely conduct wedding rituals of gods and goddesses with much pomp and revelry. A wedding (vivah) in Hinduism is a rite of passage (samskara) that transforms a single entity into one half of a conjugal pair (dampatya). Being single, however, does not mean being incomplete. The idea of ‘wholeness’ in Hinduism is not necessarily ..