Introduction | p. xi |
Public Meeting and Parting as Private Acts | p. 1 |
The Contract of Silence | p. 2 |
Shivraj | p. 27 |
Pages from a Diary | p. 36 |
O Pomponia Mine! | p. 39 |
Epithalamium | p. 41 |
And So to Bed | p. 47 |
The Jungle | p. 49 |
The Slaves | p. 52 |
Poems from a Vacation | p. 59 |
Night Queen | p. 60 |
Gandu Bagicha | p. 77 |
Moonlight Tandoori | p. 81 |
A Mermaid Called Aida: A Review | p. 93 |
from Waiting for Winter | p. 96 |
Underground | p. 103 |
Opinions | p. 105 |
Bomgay | p. 106 |
Beta | p. 107 |
Sunshine Trilogy | p. 108 |
from Trying to Grow | p. 112 |
from The Golden Gate | p. 122 |
Six Inches | p. 138 |
Karate | p. 153 |
The Raising of Lazarus | p. 155 |
Song of a Hired Man | p. 156 |
'Never Take Candy from a Stranger!' | p. 160 |
from Sheltered Flame | p. 167 |
from Yayati | p. 170 |
Desire Brings Sorrow | p. 172 |
Under Water | p. 173 |
On the Road to Jata Shankar | p. 176 |
Apparently | p. 178 |
Rite of Passage | p. 179 |
The Sweetest of All | p. 189 |
Knowing Your Place | p. 198 |
Diary: Sharjah, 21 June 1993 | p. 201 |
On Account of a Girl | p. 209 |
An Answer to the Female Liberationists | p. 216 |
Her/Man | p. 218 |
'Nath' of the Gay Prophet | p. 219 |
from Funny Boy | p. 221 |
'Aisa Bhi Hota Hai Kya?': A Story from Nepal | p. 229 |
The Country without a Post Office | p. 233 |
Story | p. 237 |
Zib-al-Abd | p. 247 |
Dirge | p. 249 |
Afterword | p. 251 |
Editor's Note | p. 254 |
Editor's Acknowledgements | p. 256 |
Biographical Notes | p. 257 |
Copyright Acknowledgements | p. 263 |
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