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Queerly Beloved

Queerly Beloved

A Love Story for All Seasons

Farhad J Dadyburjor
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Mumbai-based industrialist Ved Mehra has found the love of his life in Carlos Silva, an American working in Mumbai. After three years of living together they are ready to take the next step of a big fat Indian wedding. As he begins to share the good news with his family and start preparations, Ved finds himself stretched in all directions: his mother Dolly, now divorced and madly in love with a much younger man who wants to marry her; revelations of his father Prem’s old friend from Oxford University having had a gay crush on his dad for several years; and if things weren’t complicated enough, his ex-boyfriend Akshay having left his wife and heavily wooing Ved as his one and only true love. Will things finally work out for Ved on his big day, one that he’s dreamt about all his life, with everyone else around him also demanding their own happily ever after?

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Feb/2026

ISBN: 9780143477884

Length : 264 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

Queerly Beloved

A Love Story for All Seasons

Farhad J Dadyburjor

Mumbai-based industrialist Ved Mehra has found the love of his life in Carlos Silva, an American working in Mumbai. After three years of living together they are ready to take the next step of a big fat Indian wedding. As he begins to share the good news with his family and start preparations, Ved finds himself stretched in all directions: his mother Dolly, now divorced and madly in love with a much younger man who wants to marry her; revelations of his father Prem’s old friend from Oxford University having had a gay crush on his dad for several years; and if things weren’t complicated enough, his ex-boyfriend Akshay having left his wife and heavily wooing Ved as his one and only true love. Will things finally work out for Ved on his big day, one that he’s dreamt about all his life, with everyone else around him also demanding their own happily ever after?

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Farhad J Dadyburjor

FARHAD DADYBURJOR has been an entertainment and lifestyle journalist for over twenty years. Born and based in Mumbai, India, he has held several senior editorial positions, including at DNA newspaper, as launch editor at the international men’s magazine FHM, and currently at The Leela Magazine. He has also written for numerous publications and has a blog of his own. His debut novel, How I Got Lucky, was a satire on India’s celebrity culture that was hailed as “racy, sexy, and riotous” by Vogue India. His second novel The Other Man, published worldwide by Lake Union was a heartwarming gay romcom, and was a Lambda Award finalist in 2022.

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