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Chakgay! India #8 Table of Contents Letter from the Editors “Real and Truthful” A review of Lord of the Senses by Vikram Kolmannskog “I want to explore how we are all deeply connected.” An interview with Vikram Kolmannskog Bureaus By Maalini Krishna Daughters By Maryam Khan Uncrumple By Sherein Bansal Featured Artwork: Realisation By Diya Ullas Where We Thank You Letter from the Editors Hello readers! Welcome to the eighth issue of Chak Gay! India by Queer Desi! This month we’re talking about queer literature: novels, stories, and poetry. Thank you to all of our collaborators, without whom this issue would not exist. We love you and your work! LGBTQ+ literature in India is growing with acceptance and more spaces for queer people to publish their work. It is so important to include queer perspectives when talking about India’s writing history. This issue, we’ve partnered with Vikram Kolmannskog, an Indian- Norwegian writer who released his book Lord of the Senses on September 6th this year, the one year anniversary of the 377 verdict. This month also happens to be the one year anniversary of Queerdesi! We can’t believe a year has already gone by. Thank you to everyone who has supported us! We love creating this magazine. Please let us know what you think! We welcome opinions, criticism, thought processes, and of course, more submissions (hint hint) (we’re just kidding) (not actually.) Yours queerly, Oviya Cherian and Ananya Vepa (Editor in Chief and Executive Director) QueerDesi is a student-run initiative from Bangalore. Our aim is to promote inclusivity within the LGBTQ+ community and to bring new points of view to those outside of it. “Real and Truthful” A review of Lord of the Senses by Vikram Kolmannskog. Written by Oviya Cherian Vikram Kolmannskog is an Indian-Norwegian writer, psycho-therapist, associate professor at the Norwegian Gestalt Institute and also a scholar of law and socio-legal studies. This month Queer Desi was fortunate enough to be sent a collection of short stories called Lord of the Senses by Vikram Kolmannskog. All in all, I gave the book 3.5/5 stars. This book compiles 21 short stories celebrating and exploring diversity, family, spirituality, culture, identity, race, religion, caste and sexuality. Kolmannskog doesn’t shy away from anything, his stories are honest and explicit. The emotions displayed are very real and the thoughts each character has are relatable. They were beyond my personal experience but are understandable and readers won’t have a hard time clicking with them, which is always a good thing. The stories explore so many different settings and kinds of people, it explores how religion, culture, caste, race, spirituality still play into relationships today. It acknowledges the diversity and acknowledges that it is a process to throw away discrimination or prejudice, it recognises bias. It negotiates prejudices of caste and religion and more and doesn’t play into ideals of romance and sex, it is real and truthful. One story that especially struck me with these notes was “Ravan Leela”, a story about a man who contemplates caste and meets someone on Grindr. It doesn’t hide the fact that the prejudices we see around us, though we do not conform to them, do come up in our own minds when we meet people and form relationships. At the same time, it shows us that the real question is how you deal with them, how you acknowledge that you are not a bad person for wondering and then push it aside and say “it doesn’t matter”. The stories make way for the hope that one day these questions won’t even exist because these constructs will crumble. Something that I really appreciated in the collection was that it incorporated technology. So often, books set in our time ignore technology, which is unrealistic because you’re reading this on a screen, you communicate through a screen, and you probably met some of your best friends through a screen. Grindr, texting, other dating apps, facebook, etc are all acknowledged in ‘Lord of the Senses’ and applied in the narrative, which added to its realism and I think it makes the stories so much more relatable to readers, queer or not. The book as a whole is very sexual and pretty explicit, it is unashamed in its dive into sex and lust. The stories speak about same-sex desires and lust with no barriers and no censorship. This is refreshing as it happens so often in Indian (and other) literature, due to the rampant phobic and dangerous behaviour and speech towards it. But, sometimes the sex or masturbation seemed disconnected from the rest of the story or setting like in “Surya”, a story about the narrator taking a cab back home from a party and striking a conversation with the driver, it did take me away from some of the narratives. I didn’t feel that they were always necessary or essential to that particular story as it didn’t really add anything to it. The stories were intriguing and many of them left me with so, so many questions but funnily enough my favourite stories in the collection were the ones that left me with the most questions - “Nanima and Roger Toilet”, “Engagement”, “Ravan Leela”, “A Murder of Crows”, “Surya”, “J”, “CockTail D’Amore” and “The Sacred Heart”. They were poetic in the sense that they were open-ended or you didn't have the whole beginning, middle and end. You stepped into the character’s life at the point that they want you to and this made the stories feel honest and true to reality. Vikram Kolmannskog’s writing is vivid and colourful. It’s transportive and brings life to every narrative and setting. This is so essential in a book that travels across India, to Berlin, to Norway. It’s emotive and this carries through in every voice in the book, which is often a problem with collections: consistency. In a lot of the stories he writes in a stream of conscious way, poetic, allowing you to look into each narrative’s mind, exploring a life rather than a single plot arc which actually works better with short stories in my opinion. I think this book has something for everyone and it discusses important and oftentimes difficult topics in an easy and readable way. Thank you to Vikram Kolmannskog for giving us the opportunity to read your stories. The links to where you can buy this book and the author’s social media, website, Goodreads, etc will be linked below. https://www.amazon.in/Lord-Senses-Vikram-Kolmannskog/dp/ 0995516294/ref=sr_1_1? crid=LLUS3OIPGPCZ&keywords=lord+of+the+senses+vikram+kolman nskog&qid=1567921849&s=books&sprefix=lord+of+the+senses+vikram %2Cstripbooks%2C-1&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Senses-Vikram-Kolmannskog/dp/ 0995516294 https://www.bookdepository.com/Lord-Senses-Vikram-Kolmannskog/ 9780995516298 http://www.vikramkolmannskog.no/en/index.html https://www.facebook.com/vikram.kolmannskog https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/ 14987768.Vikram_Kolmannskog “I want to explore how we are all deeply connected.” An interview with Vikram Kolmannskog. Questions by Oviya Cherian. Hello! Introduce yourself. My name is Vikram Kolmannskog; it reveals my dual heritage as the child of an Indian mother and a Norwegian father. My preferred pronouns are he, him, his, they, them and their. I work mostly as a writer and psychotherapist these days. I research and teach psychotherapy as a part-time associate professor at the Norwegian Gestalt Institute. My first book was a collection of tales from therapy: The Empty Chair. Tales from Gestalt Therapy. I have also worked as a lawyer and socio-legal scholar, and some of my research has been on the Indian queer movement. Fun fact: I was born on the 6th September, the same date that the Indian Supreme Court delivered the pro-LGBT verdict. How would you briefly introduce your book, Lord of the Senses? It is a collection of short stories - queer, cosmopolitan, erotic, and spiritual. Most have some link to India. When and how did you realise you wanted to be a writer? From an early age, I loved stories and books - and I wrote fiction and poetry. Many factors may have played a role, including the exposure to literature and stories I got in my family. Perhaps a sense of loneliness and otherness as a queer, brown boy growing up in Norway also made me turn to reading and writing, which are part travelling and part homecoming. Writing also feels like something quite fundamental to me, a calling and a way of being in the world. An important reason I write is to explore and express the complexity and wonder that I experience in and around me. Writing and getting published have not been easy for me, though. But I didn’t give up. According to James Baldwin, the supreme animating force of the writer is the irrepressible impossibility of not-writing: ‘Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.’ What do you think makes a good story? How a story is written matters, the form, the choice of words, its style and structure. Words are important to writers; otherwise one could use another medium such as photography. What a story says also matters, the content, the story itself. A great story appreciates and explores the complexities and paradoxical truths about human life. It leaves me with some wonder and awe.
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