The decriminalisation of homosexuality in India has generated a wave of LGBT literature that was non-existent or underground in the previously hostile country.
According to The UK Guardian, stories of ‘A transgender Sikh comes to terms with a vagina, a Maharashtrian motorcycling champion tells of her hidden sexuality, and an unwitting lesbian is drawn into the Mumbai underworld’ have exploded onto the Indian literature scene.
Threats from religious activists prompted gay literature author Salman Rushdie to pull out of India’s largest literature festival earlier this year, his work however was met with little contempt.