Words Ryan Lanji
Location The Hoxton Shoreditch
Beta [son in Hindi], why must you go on live television and be in the newspapers telling everyone your story?” asked my mother with concern. We were talking on the phone before the latest instalment of my increasingly popular East London queer Bollywood hip-hop night Hungama. I had just been on the BBC with Victoria Derbyshire, chatting about the importance of sexual-health testing in the South Asian community.