About the Book: Mohanaswamy
Mohanaswamy has just lost his long-time partner, Karthik, to a woman. Even as
he scrutinizes himself, the choices hes made, the friends and lovers hes gained
and lost, Mohanaswamy dreams of living a simple, dignified life. A life that
will allow him to leave, even forget, the humiliation and fears of adolescence,
the slurs his mind still carries around- gandu sule, hennu huli- and the despair
that made him crave to conform. A coming out of the closet for Vasudhendra
himself, these stories of homosexual love and lives jolted Kannada readers out
of their notions of the literary and the palatable.