Love within the confines of caste also limits itself to hetero-normative values. It doesn’t open up a space for love as an ultimate human virtue that is beyond the constructed identities of gender, sexuality and caste. As Dhrubo Jyoti, a powerful and genuine voice of the Dalit queer movement, said in an exposé of inter-caste homosexual relationships: ‘Caste broke our hearts and love cannot put them back together.’4 This construction of love puts the locus on the receiver and giver of love, who are not caste blind. Hence, the imposition of caste features prominently even in queer and trans
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