Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Filmmaker Onir Dhar’s talk session on ‘Making Literature LGBTQ Neutral’ at the Bhopal Literature and Arts Festival was canceled on Friday.
Five years after the Supreme Court repealed Section 377, our society still seems unprepared to talk about the LGBTQ+ community and its inclusion in other areas such as arts and literature. am. Talk sessions related to this subject will be canceled for the safety of the speaker threats.
On the same note, renowned filmmaker Onir Dhar took to Twitter to note his feelings about the talk session being removed from the festival.
He tweeted, “Shocked and sad that an event I was really looking forward to speaking at had to drop me. said they couldn’t guarantee my safety.So they canceled the event.Let me handle it…”
Dahl also quoted a tweet bashing the festival organizers for making such “nonsense” topics part of the festival, saying “no comment.”
Asked about the reasons behind the program’s cancellation, the official Raghav Chandra told Free Press: I got verbal advice from the state government itself that they would go against him. He received information that there would be opposition to both the filmmakers and the topic. ”
The literary festival’s official website has now removed this topic from its schedule.
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