Parrots of Desire: 3,000 Years of Indian Erotica

by Amrita Narayanan

The erotic tradition in India is thousands of years old. In The Parrots of Desire, the modern reader, to whom the anthology is dedicated, will find a wealth of Indian erotic writing-beyond the famously unbridled passages of the Kama Sutra and Koka Shastra. There is, for instance, the extract 'Why does sex exist?' recreated from the 3,000-year-old Rig Veda; the work of the Tamil Sangam poets, whose contemporary finesse belies their antiquity; Bhakti...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9383064099
• ISBN13: 9789383064090
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Aleph Book Company
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"