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Review: ‘The Tree Outside My Window is a Drama Queen’ by Avinash Matta

July 18, 2017

The sixty poems in The Tree Outside My Window is a Drama Queen are short pieces, and can be read in bursts. They coalesce around nature, and in contrast, technology. Often, Matta’s poems speak of gayness and its proscription in this country.

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Movie Review: Shab – An Excellent Movie Dealing with Relationships

July 15, 2017

Whether it is heterosexual relationships or same-sex relationships, Onir imbues them with equal passion and dignity

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Book Review: Coming Out.. Scribblings From The Heart

May 17, 2017

A collection of autobiographical notes written between 2012 and 2014, ‘Coming Out….Scribblings from the Heart’ gives the reader an insight into a closeted gay man’s life

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What the year 2016 Meant for LGBTs in India and the World

January 3, 2017

2016 will be remembered for a lot of things- Trumps election, Modi's demonetisation. But what did the year bring for LGBTs?

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Review: Kapoor and Sons – A Leap Forward?

March 21, 2016

Is this just a one-time wonder or can we hope such positive portraits of LGBT characters in future as well?

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Manoj Bajpai, Aligarh, Hansal Mehta, Gay

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Review: Aligarh is More Than Just the Story of Prof. Siras

February 27, 2016

Aligarh is not just the story of Prof. Siras, it is the story of thousand of LGBTs who have to face discrimination, extortion and live under threats. It is the story of fear under which LGBTs live in this country.

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Movie Review: Nirbashito (Bengali, 2015)

August 19, 2015

Churni Ganguly has already been a proven actress. This time she makes her directorial debut, with her film, ‘Nirbashito’, based on Taslima Nasreen’s banishmen... Read More...

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Book Review: Selections from The Thousand Nights and a Night

April 27, 2015

“Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!” And hence, glory be to the aforementioned book, translated by Sir R.F Burton. The book i... Read More...

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Book Review: My Magical Palace

February 22, 2015

The magical part about My Magical Palace is Kunal’s ease for storytelling and his ability to create a bygone era- the 1970’s Hyderabad in all its beauty and o... Read More...

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Review: Crazy Cukkad Family – A wedding of substance

January 20, 2015

With a daring new perspective of looking at homosexuality, Crazy Cukkad Family signals at a new mentality that is being welcomed both by Bollywood and the Ind... Read More...

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Syam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy: Tales of Forbidden Love

September 30, 2014

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for gay male fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, Syam Selvadurai’s debut Funny Boy is perhaps the most wide... Read More...

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All The Rage

October 10, 2011

Dibyendu Paul reviews the movie All The Rage Apparently it may seem that All the Rage is pretty shallow. But the most interesting part is that movies like All ... Read More...

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