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    Who Took the Orange from my Rainbow?
    Who Took the Orange from my Rainbow?
    Who Took the Orange from my Rainbow?
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    Who Took the Orange from my Rainbow?

    By Harish Kumar

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    For the 150 million-plus LGBTs in India, Jatin Johar proves to be a nightmare. Thanks to this new-found bugbear, LGBTs in India find themselves suddenly maligned. They all stand marked out as potential criminals in the eyes of an asinine law.

    Did Jatin Johar realise the gravity of the injustice he had perpetrated? Did he finally muster the moral courage to accept that he was responsible for making the apex court an antithesis of justice? Why did his justice wife tear into him for his verdict? What did she know which Jatin Johar didn't? When did he realise his folly? Finally, what made him confess and cry within himself?

    This explosive suspense-filled work is former Justice Jatin Johar's story as much it is the story of all those much maligned millions. Classified as a factionette, Who Took the Orange from my Rainbow? is a novelette, a fictional work couched in 7,800 words deftly spun around a few facts that occurred in India.

    Though the novelette-factionette is dedicated to the 150 million-plus persecuted LGBTs in India, this timeless story is equally relevant to LGBTs elsewhere. Particularly more so to all those LGBTs languishing in those 77 homophobic regions on this earth. The novellete is dedicated to them as well.

    This novelette is sure to melt your hearts and move you to tears. When that happens, you are sure to see no one takes the orange from the rainbow.

    This is Harish Kumar's debut novelette.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarish Kumar
    Release dateApr 22, 2020
    ISBN9781393883470
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      Who Took the Orange from my Rainbow? - Harish Kumar

      Disclaimer

      This novelette Who Took the Orange from my Rainbow? is pure fiction. This fictional work is like a dream you are going through, but you are not certain whether it is actually a dream or something that really happened.

      This fictional work projects characters and timelines that have been created for dramatic purposes. In essence, this novelist has exercised his writer’s liberty to the fullest in moulding characters and events, and colouring them suitably for the sake of building his plot.

      It is hereby declared that all the characters and incidents in this novelette are imaginary and resemblance to any person or persons dead or alive is purely coincidental.

      Neither the novelist nor the publisher nor the publishing platform of Who Took the Orange from my Rainbow? intends to outrage, insult, wound or hurt the sentiments, beliefs or feelings of any individual, or any set of individuals or any group of professionals or any class or any community or any geographical region in the world.

      Who Took the Orange

      from my Rainbow?

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      For Justice Jatin Johar, it was just like any other day in his monotonously repetitive calendar filled with resolving dichotomous disputes, hearing heated arguments, clearing confusions and delivering drab judgements.

      For once, he did not have even the faintest inkling of the fierce fermentation his verdict on that day was going to cause in India.

      On that last day of his uneventful career too, he pronounced his judgement, historic for all the wrong reasons.

      The verdict was on the thorny issue of same-sex relationships and consensual sex among consenting adults. He decided, delivered his judgement, recriminalised such relationships, left the apex court room and is back home now.

      Not that Jatin Johar did not notice in the packed court room persevering and fervently-hoping gay activists and the sexually-different breaking down. For him, being extremely unaffected is the hallmark of a dispassionate judge. And he was one.

      But, is it a virtue to be extremely unaffected by a decision that was to devastate the LGBT community in India, set the nation’s human rights clock back to its dark colonial days and throw the nation into the garbage heap of 77 banana republics which still persist with draconian laws against gays? Such questions never seemed to bother him a bit.

      Back home, Jatin Johar eased into his home wear, gave himself a generous wash, made himself comfortable in his airy portico in

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