Where do the city’s lovers find shelter? Where do they canoodle? How do the queers make this big bad city their own? What is the gender of Delhi streets? Where the hell is the ‘minuscule minority’? How does desire move about in public space? What does it mean to kiss someone like Shalimar Bagh? Do queers age differently than others? How do memories of sexist and homophobic bullying stalk the grown-ups who’re badly failing at adulting? Will Delhi remember our loves? Or to ask the same question differently, will Delhi remember our failures?
These are some of the questions that Akhil Katyal’s poems, in Hindi, English and Punjabi, open up for us. Come join us for an evening of queer and feminist poetry and conversations. There will be a discussion with the poet after the reading.