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Parrots of Desire: This wonderful anthology of sensual delights will leave you wanting for more

Three thousand years of sex in just under 250 pages is a tall order for anyone, so for this ground breaking anthology, Amrita Narayanan skillfully cherry picks some delicious fruit from across the subcontinent's literary (and oral) traditions. The result is a wonderfully varied smorgasbord of sensual delights.

The Parrots of Desire opens with an extract from the Upanishads entitled, simply, provocatively and deeply, "You are Your Desire":You are what your deep,

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