Keeping intact silences and reading between the lines

Niranjan Kunwar’s accounts of a queer man navigating through his life in ‘Between Queens and the Cities’ is not an uncommon story, but it is an urbane and hopeful recollection.

When we are unable to tell our truth, we feel choked. That then creates our boundaries and we are left with nothing but to escape ourselves, continually and exhaustingly. Writer and educator Niranjan Kunwar’s memoir, titled Between Queens and the Cities, in many ways is a testament to such a struggle but in more ways it is an ordinary story about a man uncertain of life and what he wants.