ABSTRACT
The chapter tries to read Ruskin Bond's novel "Delhi Is Not Far" (1994) as a queer narrative. Although the narrative is popularly circulated as a tale of small-time aspirations for the anonymous freedom of the big city, smuggled into the tale is the story of a man realising his love of men, or at least of one man. The relationship of Arun and Suraj is one that appears deceptively as just a good friendship but contains in it an emotional charge that exceeds the strictly asexual nature of homosocial friendship that patriarchy dictates.
