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&lt;img src="http://blogs.livemint.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=16652" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Hooray for Gays! Goodbye, Section 377.</title><link>http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/the_expat_blog/archive/2009/07/02/hooray-for-gays-goodbye-section-377.aspx#16162</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:09:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">69a35da2-a32a-4865-9f9a-b94bb9d2309f:16162</guid><dc:creator>propertynice</dc:creator><description>propertynice.com - No.1 India Real Estate &amp;amp; Property Portal to buy, sell, rent commercial 

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&lt;img src="http://blogs.livemint.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=13558" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Hooray for Gays! Goodbye, Section 377.</title><link>http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/the_expat_blog/archive/2009/07/02/hooray-for-gays-goodbye-section-377.aspx#13446</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:02:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">69a35da2-a32a-4865-9f9a-b94bb9d2309f:13446</guid><dc:creator>aditya</dc:creator><description>don&amp;#39;t cheer and celebrate so soon... Baba Ramdev is contesting the verdict... one of a strong majority of people out here who term homosexuality as a disease... somethings will never change... &lt;img src="http://blogs.livemint.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=13446" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Hooray for Gays! Goodbye, Section 377.</title><link>http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/the_expat_blog/archive/2009/07/02/hooray-for-gays-goodbye-section-377.aspx#13329</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:43:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">69a35da2-a32a-4865-9f9a-b94bb9d2309f:13329</guid><dc:creator>Pankaj</dc:creator><description>Not sure if the Delhi HC has declared Sec 377 as unconstitutional. I guess interpretation of the same section could suffice. The Section penalises the unnatural sex and could be interpreted in such a way to make a room for gay (people with alternative lifestyle, more politically correct word) sex. 
Anyways, what matters more is the signal of change in the attitude,and the changing norms of the society. 
It, atleast, means that we are ready to accept the changes and also will try to interfere lesser in the personal matters of other. 
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I personally am contemplating a move to USA for higher studies and hope that I would be able to embrace my adoptive nation as completely as you are doing right now.

Here&amp;#39;s to hoping that you become a full-blooded &amp;#39;Desi&amp;#39; and I become a red-blooded &amp;#39;Yankee&amp;#39; successfully.
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