Same-sex attraction was decriminalised in India in 2018. Before that, it was looked at as a perversion, a condition, an anomaly, and something that needs to be cured. In 1977, the Indian queer community found an unlikely ally in a world-renowned mathematician, the “human computer” as she is fondly called, when Shakuntala Devi wrote “The World of Homosexuals” demanding the decriminalisation of same-sex attraction and a request to view intolerance towards the LGBTQIA+ community as immoral.