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Jamali-Kamali: A Tale of Passion in Mughal India
Posted on 09/01/2012 | No CommentsBy Karen Chase Book Review by Udayan Unknown to even most people in Delhi, off the busy Mehrauli-Gurgaon road is a small and quiet 16th century tomb of Sufi poet... -
The Blue Boy
Posted on 22/06/2011 | No Commentsby Rakesh Satyal review by Udayan There are certain essential components to every gay coming of age story- there is the gender bender teenager who’s bullied at school, a judging father,... -
Vivek and I
Posted on 18/06/2011 | 1 Commentby Mayur Patel Review by Abhijit Vivek and I No of pages: 377 (co-incidence?) Author: Mayur Patel Publisher: Penguin Books Price: Rs. 299/- Reviewing a piece of art or literature... -
The Susurrus – Beyond the Sky
Posted on 18/06/2011 | No Commentsby Junius review by Ratnesh The basic theme which runs through this work is – love of law Vs law of love. ‘The Susurrus: Beyond the Sky’ is the story... -
Colonies of the Heart
Posted on 24/03/2011 | No CommentsBy Jeremy Seabrook Review by Ratnesh It would be fair introducing the writer first. ‘Colonies of the Heart’ comes from Jeremy Seabrook, who is more noted for his plays and... -
High Noon and the Body
Posted on 24/03/2011 | 2 CommentsPoems by Kyla Pasha Review by Udayan Kyla Pasha’s book of poetry is an astonishing piece of work coming out of radical feminist Pakistan. This radicalism, the seething anger, the... -
Funny Boy
Posted on 24/03/2011 | No CommentsBy Shyam Selvadurai Review By: Tushar M. Funny Boy is not a book about homosexuality alone; in fact that’s just one chapter of it. It is no doubt one of... -
You Are Not Alone
Posted on 11/10/2010 | No CommentsBy Arun Mirchandani Review by Ratnesh Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. To not be alone is the only respite we seek the most.... -
Father of Frankenstien
Posted on 11/10/2010 | No CommentsBy Christopher Bram Review by Arijit Gupta ‘Father of Frankenstein’ is a fictional biography of James Whale – an iconic Hollywood movie director. Penned by a renowned American novelist Christopher... -
Annie On my Mind
Posted on 11/10/2010 | No CommentsBy Nancy Garden Ananya First published in 1982, Nancy Garden’s Annie on my Mind, is a lesbian teen fiction. It’s a book which, even after more than 25 years, feels... -
Quarantine
Posted on 11/06/2010 | No CommentsBy Rahul Mehta Udayan Given the current state of gay Indian fiction, or Indian-American fiction for that matter (barring a few exceptions like Jhumpa Lahiri) one couldn’t really blame me... -
Rubyfruit Jungle
Posted on 11/06/2010 | No CommentsBy Rita Mae Brown Ananya Dhote “Why does everyone have to put you in a box and nail the lid on it? I don’t know what I am—polymorphous and perverse.... -
‘Tales of the City’ and ‘More Tales of the City’
Posted on 11/06/2010 | No CommentsBy Armistead Maupin Kishore Kumar I wandered out like a haggard ghost, and there she was, Frisco — long, bleak streets with trolley wires all shrouded in fog and whiteness.... -
The Symposium
Posted on 25/02/2010 | 1 CommentReviewed by Kishore Kumar by Plato Penguin Classics, 1999 Rs 250 Plato (c 428-c 347 BC), was a Greek philosopher, student and friend to Socrates, and was one of the most creative and influential thinkers... -
Yaraana
Posted on 24/02/2010 | No CommentsReviewed by Kishore Kumar By Hoshang Merchant Penguin, 1999 Rs 200 Readers of this column will remember that in reviewing a certain anthology earlier, I had lamented how certain anthologies...
