ashok row kavi

Malavika’s Mumbaistan: Ashok Row Kavi, Mumbai’s Pied Piper

Row Kavi, the son of an upper-class Hindu family, residing in a conservative neighbourhood and the product of elite Christian educational establishments had come out as India’s first publicly self-acknowledged gay person in 1984, in an interview with a popular magazine. We’re talking about the Eighties here: a time when no one spoke publicly about being gay