The decriminalisation of homosexuality in India has generated a wave of LGBT literature that was non-existent or underground in the previously hostile country.

According to The UK Guardian, stories of ‘A transgender Sikh comes to terms with a vagina, a Maharashtrian motorcycling champion tells of her hidden sexuality, and an unwitting lesbian is drawn into the Mumbai underworld’ have exploded onto the Indian literature scene.

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Threats from religious activists prompted gay literature author Salman Rushdie to pull out of India’s largest literature festival earlier this year, his work however was met with little contempt.