Queer fiction
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‘Chinaki Chuburi’: An Assamese queer novel that experiences life outside binaries
Anannya Nath
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Fiction: A gay man and a domestic worker try to understand the burdens of their relationships
Rahul Singh
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‘Half Light’ by Mahesh Rao: The many silences that queer subjects negotiate in their everyday lives
Rahul Singh
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Mostly rainbows and unicorns: Queer books with happy endings and lots of fun
Unmana
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‘Deviants’: A life-affirming, heartbreaking intergenerational novel about queer life in India
Sharmistha Jha
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Fiction: 1977. Sukumar is deeply in love with a man but forced to keep their relationship a secret
Santanu Bhattacharya
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‘Night in Delhi’: An edgy novel about a working-class queer man’s fight to survive
Unmana
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Murder mystery: A queer woman partners with her boss to investigate the murder of a bookstore owner
Unmana
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Saikat Majumdar’s new novel is an intricate story of intimacy between three Indians in the US
Saikat Majumdar
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‘Queer, for me, is anything that deviates from normative desire’: Saikat Majumdar on his fiction
Hoshang Merchant
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Why Alice Oseman’s graphic novel series ‘Heartstopper’ is Gen Z’s defining publishing phenomenon
Penni Russon, The Conversation
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Fiction: Rupert is the prince of Mubarakpur, but India is a democracy. What will royalty do now?
Robin Gupta
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‘The Sea Elephants’: A young boy who is often made to feel alone finds his own skin in costumes
Sonal Dugar
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‘All This Could Be Different’: This novel about a queer immigrant woman resonates universally
Chetan Mahajan
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Krishnagopal Mallick’s queer fiction in Bengali matter-of-factly topples the heteronormative order
Rajat Chaudhuri
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This translation brings Bengali writer Krishnagopal Mallick’s queer short stories to the world
Krishnagopal Mallick Niladri R Chatterjee
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In ‘After Sappho,’ iconic women in history claim the rights to their lives and queer identities
Selby Wynn Schwartz
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Payal Dhar’s YA novel with a queer theme runs the risk of over-simplifying the complexities
Prerna Vij
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‘Are you a boy or a girl?’ This YA novel explores what coming of age as a gay teenager can be like
Payal Dhar
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Want to read about queer teens saving the world or having a rom-com moment? Here are five books
Alex Henderson, The Conversation