tamil summer
and other erotic tales
Aranyani
% For several hundred years, the freewheeling, unabashed sensuality of the country was lost to the arts due to the prudishness of emperors like Aurangzeb, the Victorians and latter-day religious fundamentalists and self-appointed middle-class gatekeepers of society. Today, though, artists of every stripe are beginning to represent sex and sensuality in their work. This story is representative of the bold new direction Indian fiction in English is gradually beginning to take.