Sayan instinctively let go of Sritam's hand. Cut to another evening when he and his boyfriend were walking outside his house, holding hand and he saw some of his uncles approaching.
He reached up, grabbed his partner’s face in his hand and gave him a kiss: “Happy New Year!” Recalling the moment, Sayan says it just felt right. Sayan was overcome with the sudden urge to do something he doesn’t usually do in public.
As the clock struck 12, he looked at the revellers around him - boys and girls kissing and rejoicing. Partying on New Year’s Eve at an upscale hotel on Kolkata’s fancy Belvedere Road, 32-year-old Sayan Sarkar couldn’t help himself.