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- Farr, Daniel and Jennifer Gauthier. "Screening Queer India" in Pratibha Parmar's Khush (Chapter 12). In: Pullen, Christopher. LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan. 29 February 2012. ISBN 0230353517, 9780230353510. Start: p. 197.