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• YARAANA: GAY WRG OM INDIA
• YARAANA: GAY WRG OM INDIA PAPERBACK – JANUARY 1, 2000
• YARAANA : GAY WRG OM INDIA
• YARAANA: GAY WRG OM INDIA - SOFTVER
• YARAANA: GAY WRG OM SOUTH ASIA
• YARAANA GAY WRG INDIA BY MERCHANT HOSHANG (4 RULTS)
• YARAANA: GAY WRG OM INDIA

YARAANA: GAY WRG OM INDIA

An anthology of gay wrgs is somethg I have never rad before. If was simply a qutn of ratg s ntent I would happily give five stars but I do have signifint rervatns about the anthology and s is the first anthology of 'gay' wrg om India* and has to weled for that reason alone but if you have no ia of the variety and plexy of India's make up not simply terms of religns, but languag and separate lerary, historil and other divisns is hard to really appreciate how credibly diverse an area is beg nsired.

In the Afterword he wr (remember this was 1999):'It is fashnable to blame mothers for homosexualy sons. Holdg such views should have disqualified Merchant as edor but knowg he held such views is not surprisg that his choic of 'gay' material for cln is qutnable were is not offensive.

Merchant's very dub sense of what is a gay story - another is Bhupen Kakhar's 'Story' (that is the tle) which is about a man and woman meetg at llege, fallg love, gettg married, gog to live wh the hband's widowed father and then the girl leavg the son and gog and marryg his father. *I actually read one of the first edns of this anthology which was subtled 'Gay Wrg om South Asia' but this has been changed on more recent edns to 'Gay Wrgs om India' and except for a piec by thors om Nepal and Ceylon is an entirely Indian anthologylerature-anthology lerature-dia lerature-queer-tertMarch 26, 2017An anthology wh diverse range of stori om every walk of life. My tert this book stemmed om the fact that this is a llectn of gay wrg, and this alone ed me to enjoy each of the piec this.

YARAANA: GAY WRG OM INDIA PAPERBACK – JANUARY 1, 2000

The are not piec wrten out of lerary ambn or to simply explore an appealg ia or ncept; the are piec that had to be wrten, that mand to be created, that leaped up and ught their thors by the throats and said wre me over and over aga until was done Ashok Banker An exploratn of gay inty South Asia.

From Ashok Row Kavi s tobgraphil piece on growg up gay Bombay to Vikram Seth s brilliantly etched acunt of a homosexual relatnship The Goln Gate, the stori, poems, plays and prose extracts this llectn ver a range of lerary styl, them and sensibili. Mahh Dattani s play Night Queen is signifint as one of the first ser attempts at dramatizg homosexualy on the Indian stage; the poems by R. Raj Rao clud here are part of a seri that formed the basis for the Bollywood film Bomgay; and the poetry of Dyar Godrej, Adil Jsawalla and Sultan Padamsee is searg s tensy.

YARAANA : GAY WRG OM INDIA

Extracts om the work of well-known wrers cludg Bhupen Khakkar, Kamlhwar and Vishnu Khankar provi a rare sight to the liv of homosexual men India s small towns and villag. An extract om Shyam Selvadurai s Funny Boy tails an acunt of growg up gay war-torn Sri Lanka, while K.

An exploratn of gay inty South Ashok Row Kavi's tobgraphil piece on growg up gay Bombay to Vikram Seth's brilliantly etched acunt of a homosexual relatnship The Go…Shelve Yaraana: Gay Wrg om South Asia.

YARAANA: GAY WRG OM INDIA - SOFTVER

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YARAANA: GAY WRG OM SOUTH ASIA

Extracts om the work of well-known wrers like Bhupen Khakkar, Kamlhwar and Vishnu Khankar provi a rare sight to the liv of homosexual men India s small towns and villag. Yaraana: Gay Wrg om India.

Yaraana: Gay Wrg om India0. 1, 831 reviews31 followersAugt 2, 2023Update Augt 2, 2023:Sce my origal review (which follows this update) I have seen the origal edn published 1999 which was entled 'Yaraana: Gay wrg om India' and except for an excerpt om Shyam Selvadurai's 'Funny Boy' and a short tobgraphil piece by a poor rickshaw driver om Nepal (there were others, but the are the on I n remember (I have not been able to pare the two edns) cludg a poem which I discs my origal review below) they are intil except for the change subtle to 'Gay Wrg From South Asia' and an afterwards where Hoshang Merchant ments on the recent legalisatn of gay marriage India.

I n't help feelg that is no cince that there are no Shale thors, or om the enormo Che diaspora, or Burma, Tibet, Andaman Islands or any other natn/natnal group or culture that is not be assiated wh a 'Indian' umbrella and, spe his cln of Mlim wrers, his perspective on what means to be 'gay' India is always om wh his Hdu relign.

YARAANA GAY WRG INDIA BY MERCHANT HOSHANG (4 RULTS)

This is not the only selectn that seems qutnably 'gay' (except wh Mr. Merchant's very dub sense of what is a gay story) another is Bhupen Kakhar's 'Story' (that is the tle) which is about a man and woman meetg at llege, fallg love, gettg married, gog to live wh the hband's widowed father and then the girl leavg the son and and marryg his father.

Yaraana: gay wrg om South Asia. This is an exploratn of gay inty South Asia. From Ashok Row Kavi's tobgraphil piece on growg up gay Bombay to Vikram Seth's brilliantly etched acunt of a homosexual relatnship "The Goln Gate", the stori, poems, plays and prose extracts this llectn ver a range of lerary styl, them and sensibili.

YARAANA: GAY WRG OM INDIA

Mahh Dattani's play "Night Queen" is signifint as one of the first ser attempts at dramatizg homosexualy on the Indian stage; the poems by R. Raj Rao clud here are part of a seri that formed the basis for the Bollywood film Bomgay; and, the poetry of Dyar Godrej, Adil Jsawalla and Sultan Padamsee is searg s tensy. Extracts om the work of well-known wrers cludg Bhupen Khakkar, Kamlhwar and Vishnu Khankar provi a rare sight to the liv of homosexual men India's small towns and villag.

An extract om Shyam Selvadurai's "Funny Boy" tails an acunt of growg up gay war-torn Sri Lanka, while K. Takg as a pot of parture the eded llectn Yaraana (1999), ostensibly the first mastream publitn on gay wrg om India, the purpose of this article is to trace the way Indian thors have alt wh the growg visibily of nonnormative sexuali.

Even if homosexualy has now been crimalized India, what emerg om the wrg is a ncern that globally hegemonic exprsns of alternate sexuali might impact, homogenize and eventually eradite lolly specific exprsns. While there have been var overviews and analys of the fight for crimalizatn of homosexualy India, so far there has not been an analysis how this benefed om a growg awarens and discsn popularly accsible texts. Gay wrg.