Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss may have struck a liberal chord at an international conference last month saying Section 377 of the IPC that criminalises homosexuality must go but his Government is clearly caught in a time warp. So much so that today it invited the Delhi High Court's strong censure when it effectively equated homosexuality with "widow remarriage." And, at one point, provoked the bench to remark that going by the government's stand on homosexuality and AIDS, it would be wise to ban sexual intercourse itself. The Centre's affidavits filed earlier in the court reveal a "casualness" in treating ...