Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture

This book explores representations of same-sex desire in Indian literature and film from the 1970s to the present. Through a detailed analysis of poetry and prose by authors like Vikram Seth, Kamala Das, and Neel Mukherjee, and films from Bollywood and beyond, including Onir''s My Brother Nikhil and Deepa Mehta''s Fire, Oliver Ross argues that an initially Euro-American "homosexuality" with its co...