Subcontinental Drift

Santanu Bhattacharya's Deviants chronciles being queer, across generations

- C. Mehra

Queer narratives from South Asia are hard to come by. In the few that exist, Deviants stands out as an ambitious debut novel that combines three stories of queer love from a single family, delving into the complexities of love, identity, as well as familial and societal norms surrounding same-sex relationships in India.

The author attempts a broad sweep and succeeds valiantly most of the time.