Version imprimableThe Washington Post, September 2, 2021
Saleem Kidwai, scholar who unearthed long-buried literature on gay love in India, dies at 70
Saleem Kidwai in his garden in Lucknow, India (Mona Bachmann)
by Suzanne Goldenberg
(The Washington Post, September 2, 2021)
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
