ABSTRACT
The American gay has grown up like the rest of the ‘civilised’ West without god and consequently without guilt. Yaraana created a new canon of gay Indian literature to replace Nissim Ezekiel with Sultan Padamsee and Ranjit Hoskote with Dinyar Godrej. In between were a plethora of stars, Indian English and regional. But what is needed is not to replace an old hierarchy with a new one, an old hegemony (straight) with a new one (gay), but to shift the periphery towards the centre and to let ever-new voices be heard. The most sensational gay murder was of a high-end Vasant Vihar, Delhi gay who was murdered by his two servants just after he returned from a diplomatic party. Homosexuals are murdered with impunity in India because there is no recourse to law. Article 377 of the IPC make sodomy illegal and a punishable offence.
