Same-Sex Unions in India

“Marriage is a union of two spirits, and the spirit is not male or female.”

Aug 28, 2026

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This is the sixth article in SOCIAL COHESION FORTNIGHT penned by friend of Guerre Shalom Ruth Vanita. Raised and educated in India, Ruth has published two collections of verse, two novels, and several non-fiction works, on subjects ranging from same-sex love and marriage in India to Shakespeare, Urdu poetry, Bombay cinema and the Sanskrit epics. She has…

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Ruth Vanita

Literature; history; Jews; Hindus; India and Israel. I am the author of two novels, Memory of Light (2020) and A Slight Angle (2024), and of books about Shakespeare, the Sanskrit epics, Bombay cinema, and same-sex marriage in India.