Sex is a dirty word in India, but our population numbers are still booming. In the land of the Kamasutra, most Indians deem it inappropriate to teach children about sex at home or at school. In a country where family, the government and various institutions have stifled the subject, we continue to make babies and are all set to overtake China by to become the most populous country in the world. The list of ironies around our attitude to sex is long and extremely baffling.
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How sex became frowned upon in India of Kamasutra
How sex became frowned upon in India of Kamasutra
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Generations of readers have pored over the Kama Sutra, the ancient Hindu text of erotic love, scanning it, sometimes furtively, for descriptions of exotic sexual practices. But now a new translation offers a radically different view of the famous sex manual, and argues that the most widely read English version is riddled with errors and plays down the role of women. Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, and Sudhir Kakar, an Indian psychoanalyst and senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, are the authors of the new translation, ''Kamasutra'' Oxford University Press , to be published in the United States next month. In an interview, Mr.
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