Version imprimableThe Washington Post, September 2, 2021
Obituaries
Saleem Kidwai in his garden in Lucknow, India. (Mona Bachmann)
by Suzanne Goldenberg
Saleem Kidwai, an independent scholar and co-editor of a transformative anthology that recovered lost and long-buried writings about same-sex love in Indian literature from ancient Sanskrit texts through Mughal-era poetry and short stories set in college dorms during the 1970s, died Aug. 30 at a hospital in Lucknow, India. He was 70.
The cause was cardiac arrest, said Ruth Vanita, a University of Montana literature professor and the co-editor with Mr. Kidwai of the 2000 volume
