Hoshang Dinshaw Merchant was born on 1947 and is an Indian poet, activist and academic.
11 Facts About Hoshang Merchant
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Hoshang Merchant is a preeminent voice of gay liberation in India and modern India's first openly gay poet.
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Hoshang Merchant was born in 1947 to a working class Zoroastrian family in Mumbai, India.
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Hoshang Merchant was educated at Xavier's Lads Academy and St Xavier's College, Mumbai.
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Hoshang Merchant has a Masters from Occidental College, Los Angeles.
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Hoshang Merchant has lived and taught in Heidelberg, Jerusalem and Iran where he was exposed to various radical movements of the Left.
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Hoshang Merchant is openly gay and is as old as India' independence.
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Since the mid-80s, Hoshang Merchant has made his home in Hyderabad, where he taught English at University of Hyderabad.
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Hoshang Merchant has written 20 books of poetry, and four critical studies.
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Hoshang Merchant edited India's first gay anthology Yaraana: Gay Writing from India.
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Secret Writings of Hoshang Merchant, edited by Akshaya K Rath, is his most recent publication.