2014 Supreme Court ruling provided legal recognition of a third gender in India, which was regarded as a move towards increased acceptance of the large yet marginalised transgender or hijra population. But, despite such rulings, the LGBTQIA+ community both in India and Kashmir remains oppressed.

India’s pinkwashing

In October, a group of masked people, shouting “Gay for J&K!” and carrying a rainbow banner representing the LGBTQIA+ community, disrupted an event at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. The event, titled “Resisting fascism building solidarities – India, Kashmir and beyond”, was hosted by the South Asia Solidarity group and called for the restoration of Article 370 in the state.

London: A group of students wearing masks barged into event organised by South Asia Solidarity group atabout the search for the lost treasure). There are also some very small elements and secondary characters from other stories too, but as far as taking liberties that’s where Spielberg stopped. Everything else is precisely how the Belgian creator, Hergé had imagined it: with that same sense of adventure, mystery, intrigue, action and fun. In other words the same mood and atmosphere that made the comics so successful (at least in Europe) and incidentally, in a way those same elements that were also at the centre of one of Spielberg’s classic, Raiders of the lost ark. It’s not surprising that Hergé himself, after seeing that film back in 1981 thought Spielberg was the only person who could ever do Tintin justice.

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