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It was during the time that artistes were returning their awards that I realised that my own art form, dance, couldn’t be apolitical. I wanted to create something that was relevant to what was happening in our world,” says Mandeep Raikhy, managing director of Gati dance forum, and the choreographer for the new show, Queen Size. But it was his re-reading of friend and gay activist, filmmaker Nishit Saran’s 12-year-old column on why his bedroom habits should be a point of conversation instead of being swept under the carpet, that became the genesis of this “choreographed response”.