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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... -
Rakesh Satyal: The Blue Man
Posted on 28/06/2011 | No CommentsUdayan talks with Rakesh Satyal, author of ‘The Blue Boy’. Pink Pages: How autobiographical is ‘The Blue Boy’? How difficult were things for you during your early teens, and does... -
Constantine Cavafy: the poet hidden in his poems
Posted on 11/10/2010 | No CommentsKishore Kumar Near the brightly lit window of the tobacconist’s shop, they stood amid a crowd of people. By chance their gazes met and hesitantly they half expressed the illicit... -
A bisexual Muslim’s odyssey
Posted on 11/10/2010 | No CommentsHicham Bouzid, Germany based Moroccan writer, has done what many would think thrice before they did it. During times when every other writer knows he or she has to conform... -
The grand old man of Indian gay writing
Posted on 11/06/2010 | 3 CommentsUdayan Hoshang Dinshaw Merchant was born in 1947 to a Parsi business-family in Bombay. He was educated at Bombay, Los Angeles, Purdue and Jerusalem. Now a Professor of Poetry and Surrealism... -
Out of Quarantine: Rahul Mehta
Posted on 11/06/2010 | 1 CommentVikram Tyagi discusses ‘Quarantine’ a recently released collection of gay themed short stories with its Indian American writer Rahul Mehta. The stories and characters explore the lives of young Indian... -
Same Sex Love in India
Posted on 04/10/2009 | 3 CommentsBy Ruth Vanitha and Saleem Kidwai Kishore Kumar Some anthologies are born like water bubbles – conceived by chance in a fit of unbridled, perverse passion – and pass into... -
LGBT Literature: Why Bother?
Posted on 03/07/2009 | 5 CommentsKishore Kumar In The Symposium, Plato discussed love as motivating the search for the forms, as a philosophical and spiritual exercise. This book is considered one of the foundations of...
