The Queer Chronicle - December 2011

TQC Issue 3 . Volume 4 . India

mex in the city

THE WISH LIST a touch of class

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DELHI PRIDE 2011

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Cover photograph by VARUN SHINDE Editor & publisher: Keith | Contributors: Aditya Bondyopadhyay, Alika, Hobart Fowlkes, Shourya, Sridhar Rangayan, Sunetro Lahiri, Varun Singh.

Layout concept, design & production: Keith.

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