Dark underbelly surfaces

India is known for it's middle-class hypocrisy. We pretend that we are 'morally' pure. We pretend that sex doesn't happen. And we pretend that we're die-hard heterosexuals. Ha!!!

So the case about the Sikkim police guard who shot his mates after a boozing session only proves what we’ve known all along. That the men in the Indian security forces have sex with other men. The boy was about to be ‘sodomised’ by four other mates, and so he got hold of a gun and shot them.

Fact, most Indian guys are sexually ambivalent. After all, when most of middle class male [north] India can’t even speak to a girl unless she’s brought to the house as a bride, what’dya expect? The good Indian boy has a mother, a sister, a wife, and a grandmother, and an aunt, but not a girlfriend. So, whenever he can, the good policeman mounts whatever’s available …

the bbc story

the times of India story