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| A still from IIT Bombay queer group Saathi’s LGBT video Mera Saathi (Video below) |
Staff correspondent, July 30, 2015, NewsCrunch
Saathi, IIT Bombay’s queer support group has released a new video Mera Saathi, to sensitise the incoming batch on the sexuality issues.
The video, directed by Anisha Bajaj, has a group of students – gay and non-gay – speaking up about their experience in the campus.
What you hear is touching, honest and for a change, agony free.
Coming out and declaring your sexual orientation can be a joyous occasion, these students say. It can bring families closer, make you build a tight bond with your straight roommate.
The video has students identifying themselves as gays and lesbians thanking their non-gay pals for the support and the friendship. You have non-gays saying being a homosexual is no different than being anything else.
But all this nice and groovy experience happens within the eggshell of a campus. The world outside can be traumatic and there is a hint of that.The video has students identifying themselves as gays and lesbians thanking their non-gay pals for the support and the friendship. You have non-gays saying being a homosexual is no different than being anything else.
Two students speak in Oriya and Telugu, addressing the people they left behind when they came to IIT Bombay. Their message: value friendship, not orientation.
The video is sublime, edited to perfection. We wonder why its director Anisha Bajaj, who is the lesbian in the video, is wasting her time in IIT.
Saathi has in the past organised queer film festival inside the campus and hosted talks on queer issues to sensitise the students.