Ruth Vanita’s approach is entirely different in A Slight Angle. Set in the 1920s when Indian society is going through a period of transformation and British rule is beginning to face another ...

Ruth Vanita’s new novel, A Slight Angle, is set in nascent urban India of the 1920s, many decades before the vocabulary of Pride entered our social, cultural, and literary spaces. And yet ...

Set in the 1920s against the backdrop of a nation increasingly intent on getting rid of British rule, A Slight Angle focuses on the desires, ambition and queerness of a group of people who just ...