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b'Two plays about the legal battle to decriminalize homosexuality in India.\\nOn September 6, 2018, a decades-long battle to decriminalize queer intimacy in India came to an end. The Supreme Court of India ruled that Section 377, the colonial anti-sodomy law, violated the country\\u2019s constitution. \\u201cLGBT persons,\\u201d the Court said, \\u201cdeserve to live a life unshackled from the shadow of being \\u2018unapprehended felons.\\u2019\\u201d But how definitive was this end? How far does the law\\u2019s shadow fall? How clear is the line between the past and the future? What does it mean to live with full sexual citizenship?\\nIn\\xa0Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India\\xa0(Seagull Books, 2021), Danish Sheikh navigates these questions with a deft interweaving of the legal, the personal, and the poetic. The two plays in this volume leap across court transcripts, affidavits (real and imagined), archival research, and personal memoir. Through his re-staging, Sheikh crafts a genre-bending exploration of a litigation battle, and a celebration of defiant love that burns bright in the shadow of the law.\\nSaronik Bosu\\xa0(@SaronikB\\xa0on Twitter) is a doctoral candidate in English at New York University. He is writing his dissertation on South Asian economic writing. He is coordinator of the Medical Humanities Working Group at NYU, and of the\\xa0Postcolonial Anthropocene Research Network. He also co-hosts the podcast\\xa0High Theory.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law'