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The PARROTS OF DESIRE Also by Amrita Narayanan A Pleasant Kind of Heavy and Other Erotic Stories ALEPH BOOK COMPANY An independent publishing firm promoted by Rupa Publications India Published in India in 2017 by Aleph Book Company 7/16 Ansari Road, Daryaganj New Delhi 110 002 Anthology Copyright © Aleph Book Company 2017 Introduction Copyright © Amrita Narayanan 2017 Copyright for the individual pieces and translations vests in the respective authors and translators. pp. 251 to 257 (Notes) are an extension of the copyright page. While every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and obtain permission, this has not been possible in all cases; any omissions brought to our attention will be remedied in future editions. All rights reserved. In the works of fiction in this anthology, names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from Aleph Book Company. ISBN: 978-93-83064-09-0 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published. To the modern reader: may reading, across time and language, give you the companionship you need to stay on the erotic side of the argument CONTENTS Introduction WHY BOTHER WITH SEX? You Are Your Desire Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Why Does Sex Exist? by Roberto Calasso The Garden of Kama: Kama the Indian Eros

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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 ‘Wh
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