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Sunil Gupta, Censorship in New Delhi

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The Sunil Gupta exhibition Sun City and Other Stories opened on March 23 at the Alliance Française in New Delhi. It was closed by police the next day. The scheduled April 3 reopening has yet to take place.

The difficulties encountered by Sun City and Other Stories raise questions about the Indian public’s reception to work concerning homosexuality.

Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou last summer, the series, structured like a fotonovela, tells the story of a young Indian immigrant in Paris and his French lover. By day he is in a romantic relationship, and by night explores his sexuality at Sun City, a gay sauna in central Paris.

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