Review of Aditya Tiwari’s Over the Rainbow — India’s Queer Heroes: Seeing the light
The HinduIn 2008, writer Vikram Seth made an appearance on Barkha Dutt’s show We The People. Seth is one of the 19 individuals celebrated in Over the Rainbow: India’s Queer Heroes, edited by Aditya Tiwari. In the preface, Tiwari makes a very important point — that India has always had several indigenous queer traditions and histories that have always operated independently, with little correspondence to analogous movements in the West. The Pride flag alone is insufficient to make one whole sari for a hijra who has to clap and strip naked on the streets to protect herself.” Need for representation Tiwari’s preface also makes clear the need for representation — a thorny and contentious media issue at the best of times. Over the Rainbow: India’s Queer Heroes; Edited by Aditya Tiwari, Juggernaut Books, ₹350.
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