File photo of novelist and poet Vikram Seth

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to review its controversial order that reinstated Section 377, which bans gay sex, a decision that has dismayed gay rights activists in India.Author Vikram Seth, who calls the court ruling a defeat of human rights, spent a sleepless night putting his thoughts into a poem that he e-mailed to NDTV last night, hoping his words would "give heart to some.""To sneer at love...is unnatural crime," he writes.