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The Hindustan Times carried this note on their Facebook page on February 1, along with this interview by their brilliant books editor, Manjula Narayan: #BooksandAuthors : In conversation with Nandini Krishnan, author of Invisible Men

Earlier this week, at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2019, Nandini Krishnan, author of Invisible Men, spoke about making gender-normative Indian society more aware of transmen i.e female-to-male transgender people, about the flak she received from sections of the community and her enduring friendships with some transmen, the evolution of her own ideas on gender, and the importance of the free exchange and expression of ideas.

I was naturally, quite chuffed to be on the same list as Andrew Sean Greer , in this "Best Books of 2018" video compiled by Hindustan Times Books Editor Manjula Narayan:

"Today's the day you're supposed to burn stuff. The haters got an early start", and other things I said are now available online. This session on Invisible Men at The Hindu Lit for Life 2019 happened on Bhogi. I was asked about the book burning, which naturally prompted some sit-down comedy. Sections from this interview were misquoted in one of the many denigratory pieces published on Indian news-ish portals, so you might as well have a look-see at what was actually said. A lot of it is funny .


 

My first ever session at any lit fest on Invisible Men was at The Hindu Lit Fest 2019. The very erudite Farahnaz Ispanani, bestselling writer Nazia Erum and I were in conversation with the inimitable Kalpana Sharma. Among other things, we spoke of the kind of discriminatory prejudices exercised, by majorities against minorities, by majorities within minorities, and by cliques within minorities.

This conversation with performance Ulrike Almut Sandig at  The Hindu Lit for Life 2019 was so much fun. My favourite moment is a little performance we did, around 39 minutes into the video. And how I love Ulrike's haunting voice!

The Hindu Lit for Life 2019 videos are up. In this first one, I interview author Lara Fergus and publisher-author-poet Susan Hawthorne, from Spinifex Press, about their quite fantastic work. A special bonus is a beautiful reading by Thamizhachi Thangapandian of the Tamil translation of Lara Fergus' My Sister Chaos by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.

India Today magazine carried this interview in the January 28, 2019 issue.

The Hindu carried this report on my session at The Lit for Life festival.

Mint published this piece, where I'm quoted, on December 15, 2018.

The New Indian Express published this piece on December 13, 2018:

Indian Women Blog published this transcript of a live Twitter chat.

Gaysi Family published this lovely piece on December 3, 2018. On January 15, 2018, I found it had been removed, apparently because of some arm-twisting by certain members of the community, who refused to attend a panel organised by Gaysi Family unless the piece was taken down, so I've reproduced it here.

Scroll published this review on November 24, 2018.

Here's a video of my interaction with Agents of Ishq on Facebook Live, with a recorded segment, since we had to cut the live short due to link-up issues:

Here's the video of an Instagram Live with my lovely editor Manasi Subramaniam, from Penguin India's Instagram page:

Gaysi Family carried this interview on November 27, 2018. On January 15, 2018, I found it had been removed, apparently because of some arm-twisting by certain members of the community, who refused to attend a panel organised by Gaysi Family unless the piece was taken down, so I've reproduced it here.

The Hindu carried this interview on November 21, 2018:

I did this podcast on transmen for The Quint 

Hindustan Times featured Invisible Men on Bookstack with Manjula Narayan:

Mid Day published this piece on November 11, 2018: