Parrots of Desire by Narayanan, Amrita -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication CONTENTS Introduction WHY BOTHER WITH SEX?

You Are Your Desire Why Does Sex Exist? The Garden of Kama: Kama the Indian Eros The Girl and the Woman Girl With Bright Thighs The Firesticks of Love Delightful

THE ART OF SEDUCTION

The Lifestyle of the Man-About-Town Sixteen Daily Stations in the Body of Your Gazelle-Eyed Lady Who are You Having Sex With?:The Physical Types and Their Seasons Ways of Exciting Desire The Ascetic of Desire

ENNUI IN MARRIAGE

How our Bodies were One Ek Pati Ki Notes A Little Kitten Two on Marriage

RAPTURE AND LONGING

The Seasons My Bare Legs Soil My Bed With Indigo Footprints Morning Chill Infinite

THE FIRST TIME

The Cure On Creating Confidence in the Girl Mira Yagnik Ni Diary A Bad Character Three Virgins On Courtship

ANGUISH, ABANDONMENT AND BREAK UP

My Soul Melts in Anguish You Do Not Come What She Said The Means of Getting Rid of a Lover He Never Came What She Said

ANGER, PUNISHMENT AND MAKE UP

Ways of Slapping Three on Anger My Conflicted Heart Treasures Even His Infidelities The Appeasement of Radhika At Midnight Resurrect Our Love When My Face Turned Toward His

MEN’S WISH TO BE WOMEN

[Who Has Better Sex?] Men or Women? Chaptinamas Why Should You Go Wandering Into the Garden, My Love A Milkmaid to Krishna

WOMEN ON THEIR OWN

Nasreen Braids Scattered I Had A Dream The Knot Gave Way Chittacobra Dark One Lihaaf

NOSTALGIA

Smell Then And Now Kailasam

SUSPICION AND CONFUSION

Who Was I? With the Last of My Garments Suspicious One Part Woman Anger Just Can't Keep It's Grip Cuckold You Come to Me Sanatan Choudhuri’s Wife On Subjugating the Hearts of Others

CODA

Out for Any Shame Please Mother Get the Cage Out I Left Shame Behind Love’s Fondness Eight Poems for Shakuntala Miffed with the Patron The Start and End of Sex

Acknowledgements Notes Notes on the Contributors Notes on the Translators