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  1. It was a revelation of sorts for me to learn that the late Shakuntala Devi wrote such a book as The World of Homosexuals. I am very interested in reading the work but find it is not available on any online store. Could you please help me out? Mail me at the address provided in case you come across this comment.

  2. Thank you for talking about Shankuntala Devi’s book and her support for the homosexual community. But please don’t say ‘queer’. Queer community? Queer was frequently used as a derogatory term. And, most people in the LGBT community disapprove of using queer because they consider it offensive.

    Please change your headline.

    1. Countless LGBT Americans also use the term “queer” in the same way, symbolically as a “reclaimed” word as well as practically as a less laborious way to refer to the all-encompassing L-G-B-T-Q-TS-SSL-etc.-etc. community. By no means would I say “most people” consider it offensive, particularly among younger generations; it is just as widely accepted and used as it is derided.

  3. It is humbling that she took what may have been an unexpected personal misfortune in being in a mixed-orientation marriage, turned it into a quest for knowledge and wisdom, and talked of it with commission and courage. That is just awesome, humbling and a huge learning.

  4. I remember back in school, I had a few math work-books with her photo on the cover. And back then, I used to ponder on her acclaimed fame for being ‘the Human Computer’.

    I am no smarty pants genius but I am so gay. And now, I learn that this mastermind mathematician was also a gay crusader having published a book on homosexuals back then in 1977! That was so forward and liberal of her if we think of society back then. I am amazed and simply admire her even more.
    R.I.P. Shakuntala Devi