"Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don't need to scream it out. 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. Which is why I Karan Johar will not say the three words that possibly everybody knows about me," Johar says in the book.
The title of his memoir, An Unsuitable Boy, is a take on A Suitable Boy by award-winning Indian author Vikram Seth.
Seth has spoken up against India's draconian law that criminalises homosexuality and his mother, a former judge and writer, has written about Seth being gay.
In an interview Seth had said that it was a "sad dereliction of their responsibility" when famous Indians refused to come out and be "role models" for many others who were suffering silently.
However, Johar's memoir, co authored with journalist Poonam Saxena, does not.
Source:-BBC
The title of his memoir, An Unsuitable Boy, is a take on A Suitable Boy by award-winning Indian author Vikram Seth.
Seth has spoken up against India's draconian law that criminalises homosexuality and his mother, a former judge and writer, has written about Seth being gay.
In an interview Seth had said that it was a "sad dereliction of their responsibility" when famous Indians refused to come out and be "role models" for many others who were suffering silently.
However, Johar's memoir, co authored with journalist Poonam Saxena, does not.
Source:-BBC
