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Dhaliwal's 'Right' Story - Ek Ladki ko Dekha toh Aisa Laga

When a close friend made a coming out video about a year ago, I thought, “he shouldn’t do it.” A year before that video, I had asked one of my seniors from school to make a similar video because I was then a part of a storytelling club that was organizing an LGBTQ storytelling event. The thing that had changed in the span of a year is that, I had stopped looking at the LGBTQ as other. If someone doesn’t have to come out about being straight, then why should others? For something to be accepted as normal, we have to believe it to be normal. We do not live in that ideal world in my head and these stories of coming out are important, making the person along with many others accept themselves because oppression doesn’t merely come from outside, it comes from within too. Why am I talking about this? I am talking about this because I still have a smile on my face as I think about Shelly Chopra Dhar's  Ek Ladki ko Dekha toh Aisa Laga . It’s been twenty four hours since I watched the