India, March 3 -- The book is written in a very conversational manner - like the best-researched Instagram caption in the world! Why did you avoid opting for a more academic tone?

That's how I speak! The editor at Simon & Schuster, Megha Mukherjee, and I worked very closely throughout the book. I would write it for her to read, and then she'd ask me questions and say, tell me more about this, and then I would read (and write) more about that particular aspect. So, it was a very conversational book.

Did you focus on fashion to give due dignity to the queer community and the ways in which they use fashion as resistance?

Yeah, absolutely. I love fashion myself, and the way I came upon this historical context had to do with the entire quee...