A fluid legacy: Poonam Saxena on one of India’s earliest queer novels
The Hindi writer Kamleshwar’s first book was turned into the film Badnam Basti (1971). Both works are moving, nuanced ...
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Dialling up the nostalgia: Poonam Saxena on the rotary-dial telephone
I was clearing out an old cupboard the other day, and among other bits of flotsam, I discovered an old, clunky, black rotary-dial phone. It looked like something out of an ancient past (which, in ...
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A fluid legacy: Poonam Saxena on one of India’s earliest queer novels
The Hindi writer Kamleshwar’s first book was turned into the film Badnam Basti (1971). Both works are moving, nuanced portrayals of queer love. The day of love has just passed, and I am reminded ...