Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find - through love or through exacting maternal appraisal - a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly…
This famous classical Indian analysis of physical love and its place in the life of the well-rounded man and woman is one of the landmarks not only of indian literature, but of human civilization. It is frank and explicit in its descriptions, but…
From the hills beyond his garden, there sounded in Shing's ears the murmur of approaching death. Muffled and foreboding, it mingled with his uncertain emotions - the affection (or sexual desire?) he feels for his daughter-in-law, the disappointments…
