About the Book: Queer Shade of Saffron
An unlikely friendship is forged between two boys in pre-Partition Punjab. A
ghost mediates an act of intimacy between two men separated by the Kashmir
border. A temple singer in small-town Gujarat experiences the miracle of love
and thinks: So this is what it feels like to have someone diminish, not amplify,
your shame by bearing witness. A Queer Shade of Saffron—a collection of sensuous
and devastatingly wise short stories— plunges into the heart of desire and
explores the endless possibilities of gender, sex and longing across India. It
claims queering as a daring act of destabilizing old,