Hi Just read about this lady who died in Bangalore. She was married (1944-1979) to a Bengali IAS Officer, who was bisexual/gay.
Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia. Book on homosexuality In 1977, she published the first[12] study of homosexuality in India.[13] In the documentary For Straights Only, she says that her interest in the topic came out of her marriage to a homosexual man, and subsequent desire to look at homosexuality more closely in order to understand it.[14] The book, considered "pioneering",[15] interviews two young Indian homosexual men, a male couple in Canada seeking legal marriage, a temple priest for his views on homosexuality, and contains a review of the existing literature on homosexuality. It ends with a call for decriminalising homosexuality, and "full and complete acceptance—not tolerance and not sympathy".[15] According to Subhash Chandra's review of Ana Garcia-Arroyo's book The Construction of Queer Culture in India: Pioneers and Landmarks,[16] For Garcia-Arroyo the beginning of the debate on homosexuality in the twentieth century is made with Shakuntala Devi's book The World of Homosexuals published in 1977. [...] Shakuntala Devi's (the famous mathematician) book appeared. This book went almost unnoticed, and did not contribute to queer discourse or movement. [...] The reason for this book not making its mark was because Shakuntala Devi was famous for her mathematical wizardry and nothing of substantial import in the field of homosexuality was expected from her. Another factor for the indifference meted out to the book could perhaps be a calculated silence because the cultural situation in India was inhospitable for an open and elaborate discussion on this issue. > > >Regards Vijay (in Toronto) >
