Mohanaswamy by Vasudhendra Card Sets Leaving felt less like a

Leaving felt less like a risk than a necessity

and self-discovery

Vanita explores Indian religious

legal and literary traditions that provide spaces for same-sex and other socially disapproved unions

book-reading senior from Sana’s college

Mohanaswamy by Vasudhendra Card Sets Leaving felt less like aMuch like the great James Baldwin, the acclaimed Kannada writer Vasudhendra has transformed his personal experience of bigotry, shame and tragedy into harrowing but magnificent truth telling. His work will leave you impatient with other writers. Siddharth Dube, author of No One Else. Mohanaswamy has just lost his long time partner, Karthik, to a woman. Even as he scrutinizes himself, the choices hes made, the friends and lovers hes gained and lost,