Born into a Parsi family in Mumbai (Bombay), Kanga now lives in London where he works as a writer and actor. As a child he was diagnosed with a rare bone disease. There were many things I could not do ...

Released in 1990, Firdaus Kanga’s semiautobiographical novel Trying to Grow should have ideally resulted in a surge of books at the intersection of disability and sexuality. However, in business speak ...

CHANDIGARH: Life might have looked like ‘Heaven on Wheels’ to Firdaus Kanga (Indiaborn writer of English who came into the world with osteoporosis, a disorder that causes brittle bones) after seeing ...

Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow (1990) is the first Indian novel in English to deal with homosexuality as if it did not matter, as if it was not special. The central protagonist of the novel, Brit ...

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