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Indian writers bring back sex
Published on Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:42 in 
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BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL: Writer Shobhaa De says sex shocks Indians still.
Mumbai: Indian authors write about complex themes in their works but can they tackle sex. Kitab Festival, a three three-day international literature meeting in Mumbai, debated the question on Friday.
“There are some Indian writers who write atrociously about sex. They put me to sleep, instead of arousing me and then there are others who do a brilliant job,” says Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, author of The Last Song of Dusk.
Indian writing on sex has swung from one to end to another: from the Kamasutra to repression and then switching to Shangvi openly discussing homosexuality and group sex and Shobhaa De writing raunchy novels.
The Kamasutra is still India’s best-selling book on sex, but new writing is beginning to find a voice in the market. In fact, Raja Rao's new book Boyfriend talks about the intricacies of gay love.
“Same sex love in India has to be written differently. It cannot be prudish,” says Rao.
“I don’t think that as a nation we are ready to accept modern sexual content written in a contemporary way. What we are comfortable with is something that is in the past—something distant from us,” says De.
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