A queer history of literature and science
Ramesh ChakrapaniLiterature and science are full of brilliant queer men and women who were hounded for their sexuality in their lifetime.
‘I Am Onir and I Am Gay’ is a missed opportunity
Abhinav ChakrabortyA lack of structure or thematic transition to all the stories that Onir wishes to tell works against this memoir.
A Ray hero looks back
Suhrid Sankar ChattopadhyayA new book on Satyajit Ray by Barun Chanda, the actor who starred in “Seemabaddha”, is a treasure trove of rare information relating to various
Reforms in limbo
K.S. SubramanianThe story of former IPS officer Prakash Singh’s litigation that resulted in the 2006 judgment on police reforms, and the subsequent struggle to get
Verdicts of empathy
Saurabh KirpalAn excerpt from “Pride versus Prejudice: The Struggle against Section 377” by Saurabh Kirpal. It details the four judgments passed in Navtej Singh
Unlocking an alternative politics
Hilal AhmedThe book calls upon the reader to get rid of the communal-secular binary to understand the various ways in which the politics of knowledge is played o
Oil and Oman’s women
Radhika HolmstromThe book, first published in Arabic in 2016, revisits the dramatic changes, particularly in the lives of women, that the discovery of oil precipitated
