The first time Through Not Your Eyes made me pause, it wasn’t because of a grand idea. It was because I caught myself staring at my own reflection in a dark laptop screen, late at night, wondering—quite genuinely—whether the man looking back was the observer… or part of the observed. That, I realised, is exactly how this book works. It doesn’t shout revelations. It nudges you into quiet corners of thought where your certainties suddenly feel… negotiable.   Kaushal Jalan arriv

I didn’t open this book looking for courage. I opened it expecting information.   What I found instead was a quiet lineage of bravery—lives lived when there were no safety nets, no hashtags, no reassuring headlines saying things will get better. Over The Rainbow: India’s Queer Heroes doesn’t rush at you with noise. It walks beside you, calmly, carrying stories that were never meant to be erased, only ignored.   Edited by Aditya Tiwari, this anthology brings together nineteen