About the Book

From the critically acclaimed author of One Small Voice a bold, electrifying story of a family in which three generations of gay men in India fight for love and dignity against the currents of their times.
A bold, electrifying story of a family in which three generations of gay men in India fight for love and dignity against the currents of their times.
Vivaan, a teenager in India’s silicon plateau, has discovered love on his smartphone. Intoxicating, boundary-breaking love. His parents know he is gay, and their support is something Vivaan can count on, but they don’t know what exactly their son gets up to in the online world.
For his uncle, born thirty years earlier, things were very different. Mambro’s life changed forever when he fell for a male classmate at a time when, and in a country where, the persecution of gay people was rife under a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality.
And before Mambro came his uncle Sukumar, a yo