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Rohit Chakraborty

Who was Vishwanath Singh Bahadur? This is how a queer Maharajah and his court seduced an Englishman

Joe Randolph Ackerley’s trip to India, which inspired him to write ‘Hindoo Holiday’, took place 100 years ago.

Rohit Chakraborty
· Nov 25, 2023 · 01:30 pm
The story of ‘Chocolate’, the Hindi story published in 1924 that created a furore over homosexuality

The discussion instigated by the story may have been the first public debate on homosexuality during the British Raj in India.

Rohit Chakraborty
· Mar 23, 2019 · 12:30 pm