Review |

Siddharth Dube’s memoir examines how homophobia became ingrained in India’s ruling class

• In An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex, the writer lays bare the terror that dominates gay men’s lives in the country’s ‘homosocial’ society
• Indian elites were groomed by the British to abhor homosexuality while the wider population accepts same-sex love