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Sar Pe Lal Topi Parsi...

I was hurt that the contribution of gays was not acknowledged during the 50th anniversary of India

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(Hoshang Merchant is a poet who teaches at the University of Hyderabad and is the editor of Yaarana: Gay Writings from India, 1999.)
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