Vikram Tyagi
Like never before, our celebrities are not only proud of their bisexuality, they dare to intimate with great élan. We bring to you the seven most hot and desired bisexual celebs from around the world. Read the rest of this entry »
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Udayan
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 at the Hyderabad Central university, Merchant is widely known for his gay anthologyYaarana- Gay Writing from India. Being an openly gay academician hasn’t been easy for Merchant- he had been beaten up by goons, and barred from entering the men’s rooms. But the eccentric man’s indomitable spirit has shown him through tough times, on more than one occasion. He lives in a Muslim housing complex in Hyderabad and talks freely about sex, politics and literature. Read the rest of this entry »
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Ratnesh
The World Unseen takes us to apartheid-era South Africa, seen through the eyes of two women of Indian descent, Amina and Marium. The two are as different as they can be. Amina is rebellious and unconventional, and holds responsible to no-one. On the other hand, Marium is a dutiful mother and wife. Despite their differing personalities, they gradually develop a friendship that has unforeseen effects on the life of Marium, leading her to question the traditions and conventions she has been brought up with. Read the rest of this entry »
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Charles Meacham and Sarah Baxter have embarked upon an ambitious project at a time and age when much cynicism surrounds gay pride celebrations- both within gay and straight people. The project called “Word Wide Pride” captures in moments of photographic genius Pride parades across the world. As Charles and Sarah travel across the globe, Pink Pages talked to them about their venture. Read the rest of this entry »
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Kishore Kumar
Very often, we have at the centre of our lives a single point which gives us strength and purpose – a dream, an idea, a conviction, a vendetta, a love. This single point remains the pillar of support around which we weave our stories and plan our days. Read the rest of this entry »
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Karan Sood
One afternoon, in 1996, R. Raj Rao called Riyad Vinci Wadia and asked if he could come around to show him some poems he had recently written. Raj had been invited to attend the writing program and workshop at Iowa State University and was keen that Riyad should film him with a video camera to have some visual material reading some of his poems. And this led to the making of the very first Indian Gay Film. Read the rest of this entry »
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Vikram 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 gay men in the United States- how their ethnicity and their sexuality interweave into riveting narratives. Read the rest of this entry »
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Arijeet Chandra
“Open Your Mind. And Everything Else.”
Shortbus is an American film written and directed by John C Mitchell. The plot revolves around a weekly gathering of sexually driven people at a salon called Shortbus. Inspired by early 2000s NYC underground meetings, the Salon is not only a place for sexual orgy, but also is a club where different kinds of people get together and discuss music, art, politics etc. Shortbus has a variety of explicit scenes of sexuality and this had/has given it a tag of pornographic film, but according to writer-director Mitchell, the film attempts to “employ sex in new cinematic ways”. Read the rest of this entry »
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By 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 for my initial inhibitions about this book. But read this book without prejudices and you’ll discover a new sun rising on the horizon of gay fiction. Rahul Mehta may not have broken clichés or stereotypes with his collection of short stories, mostly about Indian American gay men getting lost in the labyrinth of sexuality, race and immigrant dreams; however the fresh rush of literary adrenal that the stories inspire is worth the warm welcome. Read the rest of this entry »
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By 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. Shit. I don’t even know if I’m white. I’m me. That’s all I am and all I want to be. Do I have to be something?”
Now, this got me hooked! The above lines script a struggle for personal and professional freedom between two worlds, rural Pennsylvania and glitzy streets of Florida and New York. Rubyfruit Jungle, authored by Rita Mae Brown is post-stonewall, autobiographical lesbian fiction that draws out the life of a woman who comes of age as a lesbian and an aspiring artist in the mid-twentieth century. Read the rest of this entry »
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Ananya Dhote
As you see this movie, you can almost feel a flower blooming inside of you. The bittersweet intricacies of love and attraction, the lonely feeling, little anxieties of youth, variability of people and situations, boredom, self-doubt, and bursts of transitory happiness, all of this curls up inside a bud that blooms into a beautiful flower by the end of the movie. And a pink one at that! Read the rest of this entry »
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By 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.
~ Jack Kerouac
Tales of the City was originally published as a daily newspaper serial, much like Dickens’ Oliver Twist. But Armistead Maupin, the author, has been compared to Dickens in other ways too. His realistic and captivating depiction of the seventies reminds one of the Victorian England of David Copperfield. Brilliant characterisation, a page-turner of a plot, and a keen eye for humanity make the books ready favourites. Read the rest of this entry »
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Interview by: Ananya Dhote
Could you tell us something about your background? Was photography always a calling?
Oh no! I first went to a business school; I had a degree in accountancy. Then, I went back to study photography. My parents migrated to Canada when I was 15. My MBA was in New York, so there I made the switch. While in Canada, I was part of the first Gay students’ movement. We started a newspaper and I used to take pictures of the demonstrations for it. So, that’s how it started and, in that way, photography was always tied up to what I was doing generally… I find the subject matter for photography in my own life.
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Reviewed 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 in Western philosophy. Along with his Republic, the Symposium lies at the cornerstone of Western thought. It concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love and, at another, with the nature of knowledge: How do we know what we know?
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Arijeet Chandra
The film opens with a scene in contemporary Moscow where a wrinkle faced old man happens to be interviewed by an American lady reporter. As their conversation proceeds with the sips of scotch, the old man reminisces his life of his school days as “you have no idea what life in England in the 1930s was like. Read the rest of this entry »
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