Parrots of Desire: 3,000 Years of Indian Erotica

244 Pages·2017·1.06 MB·English

by  Amrita Narayanan

The
PARROTS OF DESIRE
Also by Amrita Narayanan
A Pleasant Kind of Heavy and Other Erotic Stories

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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