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Hoshang Dinshaw Merchant (born 1947) is a poet from India. Most of his writings are in English. He is best known for his gay writing anthology titled Yaarana. Hoshang Merchant was born in 1947 to a working class Zoroastrian family in Mumbai, India. On his mother's side he descends from a line of teachers and preachers. Merchant was educated at Xavier's Lads Academy and St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He has a Masters from Occidental College, Los Angeles

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Gay Writing from South Asia. Born in 1947 to a Zoroastrian business-family in Bombay, India, Hoshang Merchant graduated second in his BA Class (1968) with a major in English and a minor in the culture of India. From his mother’s family he descends from a line of preachers and teachers. He holds a Master’s from Occidental College, Los Angeles. At Purdue University he specialized in the Renaissance and Modernism. Anais Nin and he corresponded for four years.

An exploration of gay identity in South Asia.

Hoshang Merchant was born in 1947 to a Zoroastrian business-family in Mumbai, India. He has written 20 books of poetry, and four critical studies. On his mother’s side he descends from a line of teachers and preachers. Merchant was educated at St. He has a Masters from Occidental College, Los Angeles.

Gay Icons of India celebrates 22 extraordinary personalities from the queer . Hoshang Merchant recalls that the beautiful rocks on the way to Gachibowli were a welcome distraction from the potholed roads.

Gay Icons of India celebrates 22 extraordinary personalities from the queer community who have resisted injustices through their art. Gay Icons of India celebrates 22 extraordinary personalities from the queer community who have resisted injustices through their ar. Hoshang-whose book of 101 poems selected by Kazim Ali we are publishing at Navayana in October as "My Sunset Marriage"-then immediately reconstructed the 1973 poem, deftly and artfully imagining a memory. And yesterday, he read this poem and his note on it to me over the phone.

Hoshang Dinshaw Merchant is a poet from India. Writers hop in Kolkatta, India has published seventeen books of his poetry since 1989. The hop also is bringing out his collected works

Hoshang Dinshaw Merchant is a poet from India. Yaraana: Gay Writing from India (Penguin, 1999), Forbidden Sex/Texts (Routledge, 2009), Indian Homosexuality (Allied, 2010), The Manitoba Who Would Be Queen: Autobiographical Fiction (Penguin, 2012) and Sufiana: Poems (2013) are among his notable works. Merchant superannuated from the University of Hyderabad where he taught and Surrealism. The hop also is bringing out his collected works. Rupa and Company published his book of poems Flower to Flame in 1992 in the New in India series.

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