I recommend Queer Ink

Queer Literature is finally coming out of the closet in India, but it's still very difficult to access books in 'mainstream' shops, more so in small town India.

A decade or so ago, one of my short stories appeared in 'Yaarana' - a Penguin Anthology, and the first time I got to read it was when journalist Vikram Doctor graciously presented me a copy [via courier]. The book was unavailable in bookstores in Patna, at the time.

A recent assignment for me - a talk on Queer Literature in India at Patna University - evidently meant a certain amount of research and reading, and that is where I discovered Queer Ink - a repository, a storehouse ..  of excellent material: academic discourses, novels, poetry collections. Queer Ink is an e-store that specialises in Queer Literature.

I recently acquired Mahesh Natrajan's The Pink Sheep, and other books that I wanted to own, just by excercising the mouse and a few clicks - and delivery was fantastically fast.

Service is efficient, personalised, and professional.

Shobna S Kumar, whose photograph appears here,  runs Queer Ink.

She said in an interview,"There are younger, newer writers coming on the scene, and publishers too are taking a chance. More queer fiction has come out in the last two years than ever before. It shows society is changing and that there is a market for such books."

Amen to That!