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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Navtej Johar<br />
| image = Navtej Johar at Delhi QueerFest 2016.jpg<br />
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| caption = Navtej Johar at Delhi QueerFest 2016<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1959|08|08}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Jalandhar]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[India]]<br />
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| nationality = Indian<br />
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| known_for = [[Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India]]<br />
| website = [http://navtejjohar.com navtejjohar.com]<br />
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| occupation = Dancer, Choreographer, Yoga Instructor<br />
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'''Navtej Singh Johar''' (born 8 August 1959)<ref name= "Singh">{{cite web |url=https://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/citation_popup.php?id=876&at=2|title=Navtej Singh Johar|work=sangeetnatak.gov.in|date=2012|accessdate=8 February 2020}}</ref> is an [[India]]n [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award|Sangeet Natak Akademi award]]-winning [[Bharatnatyam]] exponent and [[Choreography|choreographer]]. He is also an [[LGBT|LGBTQ]] activist.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CUR_TITLE|url=https://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/citation_popup.php?id=876&at=2|access-date=2020-09-21|website=sangeetnatak.gov.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=SNA {{!}}{{!}} List of Awardees|url=https://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/Awardees.php?section=all|access-date=2020-09-21|website=sangeetnatak.gov.in}}</ref><br />
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== Life and career ==<br />
Johar is faculty at Ashoka University, Sonipat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ashoka.edu.in/faculty#!/navtej-johar-635|title = Faculty/Staff}}</ref> He is trained in Bharatanatyam at [[Kalakshetra Foundation|Kalakshetra]], a dance school of [[Rukmini Arundale]] at [[Chennai]], and with [[Leela Samson]] at the [[Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra]] in [[New Delhi]]. He also studied later at the Department of [[Performance studies|Performance Studies]], [[New York University]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.abhyastrust.org/aboutnavtejjohar.htm | title = Navtej Johar | publisher = Abhyas Trust}}</ref> He has received numerous fellowships for his research such as Times of India Fellowship (1995), the Charles Wallace Fellowship (1999).<br />
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Johar has collaborated with composers Stephen Rush, [[Shubha Mudgal]] and installation artist [[Sheba Chhachhi]] among others. He has also acted in ''[[Earth (1998 film)|Earth]]'' by [[Deepa Mehta]] and ''[[Khamosh Pani]]'' by [[Sabiha Sumar]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.narthaki.com/info/intervw/intrv109l.html | title = Navtej Singh Johar: I plod my own path | publisher = Narthaki.com}}</ref><br />
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He is among the few male dancers of classical form in India and first [[Sikhs|Sikh]] to have taken to the art form.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/after-decades-of-neglect-male-dancers-in-india-regain-their-lost-space/1/265662.html | title = Bring on the boys | publisher = Indian Today | date = 9 November 1998}}</ref><br />
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=== Activism ===<br />
{{Main|Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India}}<br />
In June 2016, Johar and five others, all members of the [[LGBT community]] themselves, filed a writ petition in the [[Supreme Court of India]] challenging [[Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/many-ups-and-downs-in-battle-against-ipc-section-377-homosexuality-lgbtq-5019604/|title=Many ups and downs in battle against 377|date=2018-01-11|work=The Indian Express|access-date=2018-01-28|language=en-US}}</ref> This resulted in the 2018 landmark judgment in ''[[Navtej Singh Johar and others v. Union of India]]'' in which the Supreme Court unanimously declared the law unconstitutional "in so far as it criminalizes consensual sexual conduct between adults of the same sex".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/indian-supreme-court-decriminalises-homosexuality|title=Campaigners celebrate as India decriminalises homosexuality|last=Safi|first=Michael|date=2018-09-06|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-09-09}}</ref><br />
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