Description
A book that will force you to rethink the idea of Love in India and the politics around it, the book contains Sixteen startling stories, many of which deal with the taboo subject of homosexual love in a country that criminalizes it, reiterating the author’s faith in free speech. These stories are at once political and artistic. They are experimental in style and use various literary forms, such as first-person narration, flash fiction, stories without full-stops, and stories in the form of newspaper interviews and screenplays. The men who tell these stories are as we see on the streets of Indian cities.
ISBN: 9386455900
R. Raj Rao is a writer, poet, and teacher of literature and one of India’s leading gay-rights activists. His 2003 novel, The Boyfriend, is one of the first gay novels to come from India. Rao was one of the first recipients of the newly established QuebecIndia awards. R. Raj Rao is the author of almost a dozen poetry, fiction, plays, biography, and criticism books.
His collection of poems, BomGay, was made into an uncensored short film by the late Riyad Wadia in 1996. Perhaps no other Indian writer’s personal, literary and academic life is steeped in queer culture as much as R. Raj Rao’s.
He is a former Professor and Head of the Department of English at the Savitribai Phule Pune University.
