Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India (54 page)

68.
Pravasya Bharat
stands for the Indian diaspora. For an excellent reading of Bollywood as cultural propaganda manipulated by the central government in their bid to woo the
Pravasya Bharatiyas
(non resident Indians), see Aswin Punthabedkar ‘Bollywood in the Indian-American Diaspora: Mediating a Transitive Logic of Cultural Citizenship’ in
International Journal of Cultural Studies
(Sage Publications, 2005), Vol. 8(2), pp. 1–173.

69. Gautam Bhan and Arvind Narrain,
Because I Have a Voice: Queer Polics in India
(New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2006), Introduction, pp. 9–10.

70. ‘India Surpasses South Africa with Largest AIDS Population’,
FoxNews.com
, 31 May 2006. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197569,00.html

71. Source—Message posted to the INFOSEM Yahoo! Group ‘Rally among Discrimination of Transgender Kokila’, by Snegyitham dated 27 October 2006.

72. Ibid.

73. Pawan Varma, (2004), op. cit., pp. 15–16.

74. Ibid, p. 205.

75. Sunil Khilnani 2001, op. cit.

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76. See—Satyanarayan Pattnaik, ‘Two Orissa Girls Defy Norms, Get Married’,
Times of India
, 5 November 2006. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/322874.cms 77. See—Rahul Karmakar, ‘Ballot Statement with Same Sex Love’,
Hindustan Times
, 8 April 2006. http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1669963,001302200004.htm 78. AllyGator, ‘Queer I: Happy Together’,
Time Out Mumbai
(October 2005).

79. Government of India instructions for filling up passports are available on the website—

http://www.passport.nic.in/ The form required to be filled up is titled ‘Form No. 2’

[Application for Miscellaneous Services on Indian passports]. The instructions for filling up this form, which mention the requirements of the affidavit and the medical certificate, are available on the website http://www.passport.nic.in/ To change one’s sex in the Electoral Roll, one is required to approach the office of the Electoral Commission and make an application in Form 8. This form is available on the website of the Election Commission of India, http://eci.gov.in/Forms/FORM8A.pdf To change one’s sex on the Permanent Account Number, one has to make the required application form titled ‘Request For New PAN Card Or/And Changes Or Correction In PAN Data’ and submit it along with documents in support. This form is available at—http://incometaxindia.gov.in/Archive/ChangeForm.PDF

(Source—Message posting from Vivek Divan on the Lbgt-India mailing list ‘On recognition of ‘Eunuchs’ and Gender Reassignment Surgery’ dated 5 March 2005).

80. The official NACO website—http://www.nacoonline.org/ is a comprehensive source for up to date facts and figures relating to HIV in India.

81. See—‘Govt’s AIDS Cell Pushes to Legalise Homosexuality’,
Times of India
, 20 July 2006.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1779097.cms

82. Source—Message posting from Ashok Row Kavi on the Lgbt-India Yahoo! Group (‘Thoughts on future strategies on 377 in the Delhi High Court’) dated 18 February 2006.

83. Sunil Khilnani, ‘Many Wrinkles in History’ Outlook Magazine, 20 August 2001, http://

www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20010820&fname=Sunil+Kilnani+%28F

%29&sid=1

84. Rama Bijapurkar, ‘Strategic Marketing Key to Customer Insight’,
Focus Magazine
(Bombay: Central Bank of India, January 2005), p. 12. http://www.centralbankofindia.

co.in/home/Focusnew/Pdf/CBI_Jan%20final%2009-16.pdf

85. See Rama Bijapurkar, Virginia Valentine and Monty Alexander, ‘Charting the Cultural Future of Markets,’ paper delivered at the European Society for Market Research Annual Congress at Davos (September), in ESOMAR 47th Congress Handbook (Amsterdam, 1995), pp. 143–161; cited in David Page and William Crawley,
Satellites
Over South Asia
(London: Sage Publications, 2000), p. 141.

86. Anthony Giddens and Christopher Pierson, Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity (Oxford: Polity Press, 1998), p. 77 quoted in Gauntlett, David (2002),
Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction
, (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 94–95.

87. Amara Das Wilhelm,
Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex
(Xlibris Corporation, 2004), p. xxi.

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