![]() ![]() Urbanisation gives space for people to articulate and print their works. Kavi believes the market has a huge role to play. Also sexual rights NGOs and activism has opened up the other arenas, says Kavya Sundaram,an academician.Īshok Row Kavi,one of the first out gay men,who began as a journalist and turned into an activist,set up the Humsafar Trust and is currently working with the United Nations office in the Capital,postulates,The rise of middle class,bourgeoisie has a large role to play. Both Ruth and Nivedita Menon are from academia. ![]() One of the factors that have affected publishing is women in academia looking at queer issues. Perhaps 10 is a small number when compared to books published on other minorities in our democracy,but for a community that has largely lived in the closet,this is huge. This,not counting the publications of queer fiction,brings the grand total up to 10 books. Cut to 2009,Whistling in the Dark-Twenty-one Queer Interviews authored by Raj R Rao and published by Sage,is the tenth book to be published in India. ![]()
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