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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&# | |