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So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India
By Vivek Tejuja
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The year was 1991. Vivek was eight. He realized he was gay. Only he didn't: he just figured that he wanted to be different. And that he was in love -- for want of a better word -- with Deepak, his best friend. Then Mast Kalandar released, with Anupam Kher playing Pinku, a stereotypical gay character. And Vivek realized he didn't want to be Pinku. So he tried to walk differently, gesticulate differently, and speak in as gruff a voice as he could -- all to avoid being Pinku.Funny, poignant, heartwarming and heart-breaking all at once, this is a memoir of growing up gay in India in the 1990s, with Bollywood, books, and the Bombay sea for company.
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Vivek Tejuja
Vivek Tejuja has worked with books at Flipkart and now at Verve magazine, and writes regularly on books and the experience of reading, notably on his blog, The Hungry Reader.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Book- So Now You Know- Growing up Gay In India
Author- Vivek Tejuja
Publisher- @harpercollins
Genre- Memoir
My Rating- 2.75⭐
The angst of a young boy who is unable to express his sexuality. The floral shirts and effiminate body language that Bollywood portrays as 'gay' is just slapstick comedy and a stereotype at best. He knows he is not that!
The despair of having to make himself invisible, cocooned in loneliness just because of his sexuality- these were @vivekisms' life till he discovered how to be himself; and that took sometime.
Brought up on Yash Chopra movies and books like Wuthering Heights, he waits for a love, a passion that will sweep him off his feet and consume him.
Neither family nor friends seem a solace to a boy who just wants to reach out.
Some parts of the memoir seem like a teenage and lovesick rant.
I first came across Vivek Tejuja's #Bookstagram and was mighty impressed with his astute book reviews and the sheer number of books that he manages to read.
I think, going by the bookstagram, I expected better language from the book.
There is a lot of genuinity in the book, it doesn't get more real than this..that, I have to agree. And that is gutsy!
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