LEAVING INDIA:
My Family’s Journey from
Five Villages to Five Continents

A nonfiction epic, called “incomparable” by Alice Walker and “searingly honest” by the Washington Post. History, memoir, and reportage reveal how a single family came to be spread across five continents and nine countries over a century of migration — a movement that parallels the phenomenal growth of India’s diaspora. Read more…

OUT!
Stories from the New Queer India
(editor)

A groundbreaking anthology of thirty original and unforgettable stories that offers a glimpse beyond the closet doors – into the lives and dreams of India’s most misunderstood minority.
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NEW: BOUNTIFUL INSTRUCTIONS
FOR ENLIGHTENMENT

A spiritual self-help book masquerading as poetry and performance text, or vice versa. Fresh from The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, a new publisher of contemporary poetry from India. Advance reviewers warn you that it’s “explosive” and “stunning.”
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Operation Unicorn
(Work in progress)

The Indus Valley civilization, four thousand years old, was home to the world’s earliest images of one-horned equines. This literary excavation delves into the connection between ancient and contemporary ideas of unicorns, with guides as diverse as Aristotle, Jean Genet, Audre Lorde, and Lady Gaga.
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