Saleem Kidwai

[11] Kidwai was among those arrested, forced to submit to venereal disease tests, and charged with criminal activity.

Deeply traumatized by the incident, he quit his doctoral program and returned to teaching at Delhi University.

[10] (Although the province of Quebec amended its Human Rights Charter to include homosexuality as a protected class, the criminal charges against Kidwai were not dropped until 1982.

)[11] He was one of the first academics to speak publicly as a member of the LGBT community and published with Ruth Vanita as co-editor of Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History, a pioneering work documenting and exploring the indigenous roots of same-sex desire in South Asia.

[15][16][17] He was working on her last remaining untranslated novel 'Gardish-e-Rang-e-Chaman' as well as a well-known Urdu history of Lucknow by Mirza Jafar Hussain before his death.