Review: The Other Man by Farhad J Dadyburjor
Hindustan TimesI have a soft corner for novels where queer characters are not condemned to persecution, where they get to experience joy and love alongside fear and despair, where their whole being is not reduced to their sexual orientation or gender identity. Dadyburjor succeeds in making the reader root for Ved’s happiness and also feel miffed at him for lying to Disha and Carlos. Farhad J Dadyburjor The book also has its set of magical moments between Ved and Carlos. Dadyburjor sends them to the Sea Lounge at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai with “a sweeping view of the Gateway of India set against the turquoise-blue sea, with rows of bobbing boats that didn’t look larger than specks along the horizon.” Carlos hasn’t seen this side of Mumbai. The prose describing Ved and Carlos’ “long and languid lovemaking that began in the shower and ended in the tub” is as erotic as it is sublime, perhaps because the author himself is a gay man, not a straight person trying to imagine gay men having sex.
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