“This searing memoir of a gay man from a country that criminalizes homosexuality is intertwined with a first-hand account of the struggle for basic human rights by gays as well as by women sex workers, two groups similarly outlawed in India. Dube unsparingly exposes a complex web of hypocrisy, corruption and brutality in this work of grave, vital importance.”

– Kiran Desai | Booker Prize Winner for The Inheritance of Loss

“Heart-stopping…Although this is a personal memoir, it is also a memoir of work. Work helped Dube find himself. And work allowed him to live a life he could be proud of…Dube gives his readers the substantial gift of hope. The sentiment is, in fact, the spine of his memoir.”

– Sonia Faleiro | The New York Times

“Journalist-activist Siddharth Dube’s memoir…is both a personal and political journey. In recounting his own painful realisation that he is different, he provides a scathing indictment of the education system, particularly the tony Doon School, of the country’s policy on AIDS, the political establishment’s attitude to homosexuality and the deep-seated hypocrisy surrounding prostitution not just in India but also in the West…His ability to relate to others who are oppressed is moving and memorable.”

– Kaveree Bamzai | India Today

“The year’s best books….journalist Siddharth Dube’s brave, sensitively told coming-of-age account as an upper class gay man and the persecution he faced.”

– Sunil Sethi | Business Standard