Many Shades of Saffron addresses the polarised landscape of literature surrounding the RSS. Insider accounts have often been devotional, while outsider critiques have tended to be suspicious, even hostile. Both have contributed to a climate in which the RSS is either heroised or demonised, with little space for historical nuance. Ghose consciously avoids both traps.
The apex court on September 6, 2018, had unanimously decriminalised the part of Section 377, which criminalised same-gender sex, saying it violated the rights to equality