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Chittacobra (in English)
Mridula Garg
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Chittacobra (in English) - Garg, Mridula
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Synopsis "Chittacobra (in English)"
DeScriPtion'As far as writing about sexuality is concerned, as long as [women] write like men, everything is fine. There is a protocol about writing about sex. As long as you follow thatprotocol, you're fine. In Chittacobra, the problem that people had with the supposedlyoffensive pages is that this woman treats her husband as a body and reduces him to acommodity... This was very hurtful to male egos. Women are forever reduced to bodiesand commodities but women aren't allowed to do that to men, to their husbands. Ithink this is the reason everyone got so angry.'-Mridula Garg on the charges ofobscenity brought against her when Chittacobra was first published.In 1979, Mridula Garg released her third Hindi novel, Chittacobra, the storyof an intense love affair between a young Indian woman-disconnected fromher home, social milieu, marriage and husband-and a gypsy missionaryfrom Scotland. There was an uproar-the novel was branded obscene and thepolice came to arrest her. But the controversy also took this remarkably frankand sensitive exploration of love and desire to many thousands of readers.It became, and remains to this day, one of the most celebrated works ofcontemporary Hindi literature.Mridula Garg's brilliant new translation brings this extraordinary book-asbold and distinctive in literary style as in its theme-to a new generation ofreaders.
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