TY - BOOK AU - Merchant,Hoshang TI - Yaraana : : gay writing from South Asia /​ SN - 9780143064947 (pbk.) U1 - 820.803530954 YAR 23 PY - 2010///. CY - London : PB - Penguin, KW - Gay men KW - Fiction KW - Indic literature (English) KW - 20th century KW - Indic literature KW - Translations into English KW - India KW - Literary collections. N2 - An exploration of gay identity in South Asia. From Ashok Row Kavi's autobiographical piece on growing up gay in Bombay to Vikram Seth's brilliantly etched account of a homosexual relationship in "The Golden Gate", it presents the stories, poems, plays and prose extracts that cover a range of literary styles, themes and sensibilities ER -