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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Lifestyle
Srishti Jaswal

India’s LGBTQ community battles same-sex marriage ‘heartbreak’ from court

LGBTQ students and activists take out a march in New Delhi after the top court declined to legalise same-sex marriage and left it to parliament to decide [Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters]

New Delhi, India – In the summer of 2018, three bodies were recovered from the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad, a sprawling city in western India’s Gujarat state.

Two women – Asha Thakor, 30, and Bhavna Thakor, 28 – had died by suicide along with Asha’s three-year-old daughter. Before the two women jumped into the water, they left a message written in red lipstick on a wall along the riverfront.

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