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| Foreword | |
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| Waiting | |
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| FromSubhashitavali of Vallabhadeva My Love | |
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| Vatsyayana | |
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| FromKamasutra Four Embraces | |
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| Milaipperunkantan | |
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| FromKuruntokai What He Said | |
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| Allur Nanmullai | |
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| FromKuruntokai What She Said | |
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| Oreruravanar | |
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| FromKuruntokai What He Said | |
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| Kalidasa | |
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| FromMeghadutam The Loom of Time | |
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| Anonymous | |
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| A Small Request | |
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| Srinatha | |
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| Love Letter | |
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| Jaganatha | |
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| FromBhamini Vilasa | |
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| A Word of Warning | |
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| Chandidas | |
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| ‘I have blackened my golden skin’ | |
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| Anuradha Mahapatra | |
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| God | |
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| Mamulanar | |
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| FromKuruntokai What She Said | |
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| Chandidas | |
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| ‘I throw ashes at all laws’ | |
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| Kapilar | |
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| FromAinkurunuru What Her Friend Said | |
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| Tevakulattar | |
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| FromKuruntokai What She Said | |
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| FromGathasaptasati ‘Even in a reeling world’ ‘How can you describe her?’ | |
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| FromAmarusataka ‘All I have to do’ ‘She’s in the house’ | |
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| Varatunkaramapantiyan’s Wife | |
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| Space to Space KABIR ‘Like a sharp arrow’ | |
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| Jayanta Mahapatra | |
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| A Day of Rain | |
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| Manorama Mahapatra | |
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| My Whole Life for Him | |
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| Amrita Pritam | |
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| Early Spring K | |
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| Satchidanandan | |
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| Loving aWoman | |
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| Balamaniamma | |
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| Gift of Love | |
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| Shakunt Mathur | |
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| A New Way of Waiting | |
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| Ghalib | |
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| Desires Come by the Thousands Behind the Curtain | |
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| Nissim Ezekiel | |
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| Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher | |
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| Miraji | |
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| Love Song of the Clerk | |
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| Suresh Joshi | |
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| Darkness | |
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| Sitanshu Yashashchandra | |
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| Solar | |
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| Nirala | |
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| Love Song A. K | |
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| Ramanujan | |
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| Looking for a Cousin on a Swing | |
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| Meena Alexander | |
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| Indian Sandstone | |
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| Fahmidah Riaz | |
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| Tongue of Stone | |
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| Pratibha Satpathy | |
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| Dew Drop | |
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| Saroop Dhruv | |
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| Beyond the Flapdoor | |
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| Keki N. Daruwalla | |
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| FromNight River ‘Dream and reality’ | |
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| Meeting Vatsyayana | |
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| FromKamasutra ‘When men ask about all the ways of embracing’ ‘Whatever wound a man inflicts on a woman’ | |
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| Kalidasa | |
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| FromSakuntala ‘Craving sweet’ ‘Seeing rare beauty’ | |
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| Anonymous | |
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| Kamasutra FromAmarusataka‘Held her’ | |
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| Kumaradasa | |
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| FromJanakiharana ‘In their quarrel’ | |
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| Candraka | |
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| FromSarngadharapaddhati ‘A long time back’ | |
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| Faiz Ahmed Faiz | |
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| ‘Before you came’ | |
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| Fahmidah Riaz | |
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| Deep Kiss | |
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| Sudeep Sen | |
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| Desire Caress | |
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| Mirabai | |
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| ‘Here she comes’ ‘Hari is a dhobi’ ‘On a sudden’ | |
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| Chandidas | |
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| ‘I have hardened my mind’ | |
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| Sujata Bhatt | |
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| The Kamasutra Retold | |
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| Kabir | |
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| ‘To say that the love’ ‘Lying beside you’ | |
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| Vidya | |
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| Love in the Countryside | |
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| Vikatanitamba | |
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| Recollection | |
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| Vallana | |
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| ‘When he had taken off my clothes’ | |
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| Bhavabhuti | |
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| FromUttara Rama Charita ‘Deep in love’ | |
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| Chavali Bangaramma | |
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| My Brother | |
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| Rabindranath Tagore | |
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| Black Blossom One Day | |
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| Akhtar-UL-Iman | |
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| Compromise | |
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| Ismail | |
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| You | |
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| Basavanna | |
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| ‘Look here, dear fellow’ | |
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| Ilanko Atikal | |
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| FromThe Cilappatikaram FromThe Round Dance of the Herdswomen | |
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| Mahadeviyankka | |
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| ‘Like a silkworm weaving’ ‘When I didn’t know myself ’ | |
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| D. Vinayachandran | |
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| FromHell Writes a Love Poem ‘When the gigantic bulls with broken horns’ ‘For love&# | |