The anthology, ‘Queer India Now,’ funded by a corporate ‘DEI lab’ and published by a major house, skips over real grassroots struggles. Instead, it’s filled with individual success stories, US-style identity jargon, and zero analysis of how neoliberalism or the law actually fails most queer people in India. Even the trans communities that originally fought for legal recognition; like hijras and aravanis; are missing. Why? Because they don’t fit the corporate-approved, urban, English-speaking narrative. The book’s editors don’t even question who controls the story; or why rural queer voices are filtered through Delhi journalists. It’s not resistance. It’s representation for the elite, sold as revolution.