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Ayaz, six collections of widely anthologized poetry, two collections of short stories, two collections of plays, two books on queer studies, a train memoir, a biography of the poet Nissim Ezekiel, and a co-translation of Laxmi Narayan Tripathi’s hijra autobiography.
<p><b>‘Not just a dry-as-dust series of interviews, these are real-life stories of real people, living all around us, yet feeling separate from the mainstream… This book gives them a voice.’—The Tribune</b></p><p> The twenty-six interviewees in Whistling in the Dark represent a cross-section of India’s LGBTQI+ community—poets, artists, professors, students, activists, clerks, and auto-rickshaw drivers; family men, gay couples, unmarried people, and divorcees. The probing and intelligent questions put to the respondents tease out narratives that go beyond the conventional and provide rare insight into the private lives of queer people in urban and small-town India. </p>
