So we’ve seen the first ever International Yoga Day in India. No doubt there were many fags, queens, kothis, cross dressers, transmen, dikes and assorted queers who rummaged in their collective closets, brought out their yoga mats and happily joined in. Now, now ,my darlings! All of us love a great party, and here was an opportunity for us – ‘the invisible’, the ‘other’ people- to have a great time, be a part of a national event, and take part in a bid for the Guiness book of World records at the same time. Yes? What a load of bullshit …
Hey, you shemale bitches who bounded all the way to Janpath to yoga up your bon-bons, I have a beef bone to pick with you…
You didn’t even pause to think that one of the poster boys of this ‘National Yoga show is a horrible and horrendous homophobe, a con-man bolstered and emboldened by the Modi government? This bounder, who had no shame about cross-dressing to escape arrest not long ago, dares to claim that his herbal concoctions and ‘yoga’ can cure your ‘homosexuality’. This sickening man cheerfully spreads prejudice and hate for all non-straight persons, and is out to ruin several thousand young lives. He’s one of the creeps that will never let IPC 377 off the statute books. Yet we poor fools, so eager to showcase our ‘nationalism’, joined the show.
So, my dears, let me put the pussy among the pigeons and ruffle a few feathers. Many of our LGBT ‘community representatives’ who appear to be on perpetually parading around the globe and hob-nobbing with international LGBT activists, are really just self-serving fatheads. When not taking self promoting selfies of themselves, they are busily bitching and bickering among themselves. Our rainbow coalition is the most disorganised collection of queers . The egos and personality clashes are all par for the course, dearies. Everyone enjoys a nice campy spat once in a while, but these famous Indian LGBT leaders got the script wrong
What an opportunity missed! June 21 could have had the biggest Indian Queer Yoga party of the decade. Why didn’t all our big talkers with so much of NGO funding and community support come together and do the biggest ever Queer Yoga display right there in Delhi? Why couldn’t Ashok Auntie, and Aditya and Vijay and Pawan and Arif and Laxmi and Simran and Humsafar and Pehchan and Sappho and Queer Ink pool in talent and funds and just do it? Wouldn’t it prove LGBT nationalism and keep our pride flying high? ? Nobody thought of it? Or were we too busy preening in front of our own little bands of groupies?
Anyway, this Yoga Day tamasha is over and done with. Now will you muddled misfits turn away from your mirrors and mascara and take matters in hand, know what I mean? We gotta Harvey Milk ‘em! Engage with our LGBT leader bitches and let ‘em know sharing TV space and time on an Aamir Khan show isn’t enough. The big pseudo-national homophobic wave is building up and it’s gonna take more than a Chinese made yoga mat to stop it.
[This is Auntie Aleck’s first contribution to Newsnet , in our new bitchy column ‘No Pussyfooting’. Comments and reactions most welcome].
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Ayee Auntieji your mascara is dripping blood! Ruffling feathers are we? Well, old bird, bring it on. Whose gonna be the next to face your potshots?
Maybe all these did not because they were never seeded with the idea by Auntie herself.
On that note…I wonder…Why did auntie not do it ?????
Auntie Aleck’s Says:
What an opportunity missed! June 21 could have had the biggest Indian Queer Yoga party of the decade. Why didn’t all our big talkers with so much of NGO funding and community support come together and do the biggest ever Queer Yoga display right there in Delhi? Why couldn’t Ashok Auntie, and Aditya and Vijay and Pawan and Arif and Laxmi and Simran and Humsafar and Pehchan and Sappho and Queer Ink pool in talent and funds and just do it? Wouldn’t it prove LGBT nationalism and keep our pride flying high? ? Nobody thought of it? Or were we too busy preening in front of our own little bands of groupies?
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And by the way, on another note:
I have been an yoga practitioner and a meditator for the past 6 years (Ramdev notwithstanding) and it has changed my life in ways that I find difficult to explain here in words. If you can, please take my word for it, and also if you can, start practicing yourself while letting notions of politics take a backseat for a while. To anyone it can only do good.
I do not see yoga as ‘Hindu’ and to be very honest I do not have a problem with ‘National’ either…qua this event, in spite of the fact that representatives of 93 countries participated in the Rajpath event and the yoga day resolution itself was sponsored by over 170 countries in the UN including most nations of the Organisation of Islamic States.
In fact, since I started practicing yog I have come to realise that there is no such thing as “Hindu” or “God” or even “Hindu religion”. They are the creation/invention of the British Historians that many victorian sanatanis bought on to, and that became the hallmark and totem of their hatemongering in modern times. Everything that the sangh says is anatema to the pure roots of Indic spiritual traditions. The one sure way of detoxifying that noxious politics of its bloodlust is to go back to the yogic roots of Indic civilization.
In other words, irrespective of politics, there are things that I feel should not be politicised and Yog is one of them. If one thinks of yog as politics, I can only feel sorry for that person!
Aditya, none of the great traditions are confined to a particular ‘religious identity’ I am a Zen practitioner, does that make me wannabe Japanese? I am not a Buddhist. Neither would a yoga practitioner in Japan be a wannabe Indian? Zen works for me, as a form of meditation and self realisation.
Yoga emanating out of the Hindu consciousness embraces the world regardless of what one’s culture or personal faith is.
It is a pity that this projection of Yoga as being part of a militant rightist agenda has crept into the narrative, but can we really ignore this new and perhaps frightening discourse?