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Post by Guest Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:12 am

The new India, however, appears to be less modern than the ancient. Take Mehrotra’s celebrated translation, The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry From The Gathasaptasati Of Satavahana Hala (first published in 1991). It has poems, among other things, about a mother encouraging her daughter to have affairs outside marriage. In an India where there are battles about “kiss of love” and “love jihad”, these poems could be criticized for being against so-called Indian values.

"The poems in The Absent Traveller, written 2,000 years ago, are all about fucking—about what goes on before the act, during the act, and after the act,” says Mehrotra. “Most poems are spoken by women, and they are of all ages, from an ingénue to an ancient crone reminiscing about her past affairs. In one poem an old woman is in a temple, worshipping a stone she says she had once used as a pillow.” Mehrotra adds, “Temples, then, were also places where you went to have sex, and stone gods, placed sideways, had other functions as well.” The poet risks inviting attention of the undesirable kind.


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