Lack of sensitivity, and an unspoken yet strongly implemented taboo on access to information play a large part in the all pervasive queer phobia in Indian schools and colleges.

There are Constitutional rights and legal rights that protect the LGBTQIA+ community in India. But how effective are these in real terms?

Giti Thandni and three others broke up and formed India’s first explicit lesbian organization, Sakhi, in 1991. 

She hadn’t anticipated the fiasco. There had been murmurs of 'improper dressing', but this time the situation had escalated to a boiling point.

Badhaai Do is subtle, and touches the right chords with the audience who can feel the pain of people who might be different, but certainly not 'abnormal'.