Tag: erotic literature

40 Years Later, ‘The Thorn Bird’ Still Has It (New Indian Express)

In a conversation with an older friend recently, she happened to mention an erotic novel that she loved when she was in her 20s, in the 1970s. My…

Shameless in Writings and Explicit in Architecture (New Indian Express)

It’s impossible to deny that human beings like sex, and spend an inordinate amount of time consumed with thoughts of it. Sex may have started off as an…

A Leaf Out of Forbidden Literature (New Indian Express)

Salman Rushdie once said, “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” Of course, Rushdie would know all about that; he wrote…