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KARAN JOHAR A FATHER !!!


Every newspaper, website and news channels, announced in detail that single Bollywood director, Karan johar, had become a father  to twins born through a surrogate.  Johar has recently been in the news for his memoir, An Unsuitable Boy, in which he categorically states that he doesn’t discuss his sexual orientation, because it (the orientation, not a discussion of the same) is considered a crime in India. To quote, “Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don’t need to scream it out…And if I need to spell it out, I won’t only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this.” The chapter, Love & Sex, spells out the fact that he is gay and not interested in it becoming a topic of discussion for the media.
Dostana was the first mainstream Indian film with a gay element and has been credited for exploring a topic largely ignored by most of the Indian population. The film was released on 14 November 2008 to positive reviews, and was produced by karan johar, the film was one of the blockbuster for the year and 8th in collection records, this victory shows the acceptance this film which is actually giving importance to homosexual relationships, and the film  Hopefully leading to more people coming out and more people not ostracizing homosexuals. Hey, if Karan Johar can (be gay), so can you. dostana the film produced by karan might be a test to the traditional Indian culture and believes, the  wide acceptance off the film might  give enough confidance to johar to look forward and finally having two cute babies through a surrogate.
Karan was not the 1st  man to single fatherhood, Tusshar Kapoor paved the road.  One of his book, Johar also stated that, “I have been thinking about having a child. It will of course have to be a surrogate child, or I will have to adopt. These are the two options I have in front of me”. Going by the fact that Johar’s children were born last month, it’s fair to guess that when the book was being edited, his children had already been conceived.
Johar also managed to pip the new proposed Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill to the post. The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill which was introduced in the Lok Sabha in November 2016 bans commercial surrogacy, prohibiting women for taking payment to be surrogates. It also bans surrogacy for singles, foreigners and persons of Indian origin living outside India. Sushma Swaraj had famously said at the time, “We do not recognise homosexual or live-in relationships, we do not want to entitle them…it is not in our ethos. That is why they are not allowed to commission babies through surrogacy”.
In January, the bill was sent to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on health, for it to submit its report within three months. It will take 10 months after it is notified to come into effect.

Johar taking this step and it being publicised to the country is important because it breaks certain myths and perceptions—that only married couples can have children. That single unmarried people have no right to be parents. That single men can’t or shouldn’t be parents. That gay men can’t or shouldn’t have children. That surrogate children are unnatural. The list is long and ugly. So, if this news makes one less person believe any of this nonsense, good on Johar.

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