Checked him out on the internet. Manil Suri is a very handsome man! ;o)
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On Wed, 6/26/13, Vikram D <vg...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Subject: g_b Manil Suri on being gay and Indian
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Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 11:34 AM
Manil Suri, the novelist (The
Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, The City of Devi) has
written a wonderful piece in Granta on being gay and Indian.
He writes about his loneliness growing up, how it was the
real if concealed reason for his leaving India for the US,
the qualified support he got from his mother when he came
out to her, his father's ability to just ignore facts,
the hopeful signs of change in India and the reasons it
might be both limited yet more real than in other parts of
the world.
It is
just the piece to read in these few hours before the US
Supreme Court delivers its decision on gay marriage, and the
diminishing time before the Indian Supreme Court delivers
its decision on the Section 377 (no date for decision, but
early December is the deadline since that's when Justice
Singhvi retires). Here's the link and a few paras:
http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/How-to-be-Gay-and-Indian
"While launching my
new novel at the
Kolkata Book Festival this year, I was warned that Calcutta
was a very
conservative city. ‘Whatever you do, don’t read out any
of the gay
scenes. Especially not the gay sex
scenes.’
"Naturally, that’s exactly what I did. The
results were disappointing.
Nobody shouted, nobody swooned, the city seemed to pull
through just
fine. Surely such provocation deserved more of a reaction?
This was
supposed to be my great in-your-face coming-out campaign,
which I’d
fretted over for months beforehand. Had India suddenly lost
its
conservativeness, turned enlightened, even
hip?"
