Karan Johar is so 'regular'

A year ago, at my son’s school graduation ceremony, Iwas thrilled to find a young boy in his grade come on stage wearing a ponytail, makeup, and finely threaded eyebrows.

- NAMRATA ZAKARIA

I already knew the school, run by the inimitable Neerja Birla, had taken great strides in its mental health programme. It was also incredibly progressive in allowing for blurring gender behaviours and dressing. It had long allowed female students to choose pants over skirts as their uniform of choice, and male students to choose skirts over trousers if they wanted to.

I was especially thrilled because there had been no mention of this child before, neither by my son nor his friends. To them, he was just another child at school. He was a ‘regular’ kid.