Backflap: Behold the Leviathan

For two years, Saurabh Mukherjea and Nandita Rajhansa criss-crossed the country and interviewed over 50 leading minds in business, policymaking, media and academia. The result is this book, which portrays how 1.5 billion Indians are creating a range of unprecedented social and economic outcomes and how India has become the fastest growing region.

This is not just a legal history of the decriminalisation of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, but also a portrayal of the author’s own journey as a queer lawyer. How should social impact and public interest legislation be undertaken? Is legal profession a safe space for queer lawyers? These are some questions Rohin Bhatt tackles in this book.

As Preet Modi navigated homesickness in the US, he got down to writing these stories exploring the lives of the young people steering through the complexities of love, loss and of finding their place in a fast changing world. The book explores human connection, the passage of time and the power of memory.