- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
When Akhilesh Godi was depressed and contemplated suicide while questioning his sexuality, he could not bring himself to see a therapist. Godi, raised by liberal parents in the southern Indian IT hub of Hyderabad and an engineering graduate from the elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), is by his own admission, privileged. But he says that seeking help in socially conservative India – where a ban on homosexuality was reinstated in 2013 – was not an option until he had to be taken to hospital suffering from severe depression after his parents noticed he wasn’t eating properly and had become much thinner. “The tag…
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