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About the Book: The Kama Sutra Diaries Intimate Journeys Through Modern India Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a sexploration through modern India by train, plane and auto-rickshaw. From the heat of antirape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the cool hills of Shimla, playground of the Raj, from a Gujarati retirement home for gay men and eunuchs to a busy sex clinic in Chennai, from patriarchs to matriarchs, GIGs (Good Indian Girls), BIGs (bad Indian Girls) and the fleshpots of Bombay, she accompanied by feisty Delhi girl Dimple, lifts the bed sheets on Indias sexual revolution. And its a revolution thats full of fascinating surprises and contrasts for India the land that gave us the exuberant guide to sexual pleasure, the Kama Sutra is also a land where women remain cloistered in purdah while teenage girls check out porn online, where families bow down to a conjoined phallus and vagina, the Shivaling, while couples fear to hold hands in public and where the loveless arranged marriage is still the norm. Colourful, compelling, confounding, The Kama Sutra Diaries reveals what India has to tell us about modern-day love, sex and sexuality. About the Author: Sally Howard Sally Howard is a travel and human-interest journalist who writes regularly on India for some of the worlds most prestigious media, including The Sunday Times, the Telegraph, and Forbes. She spends at least six months of the year on the road, primarily in South and East Asia. Reviews: Absolutely riveting? I could not put it down. Everything you wanted to know about sex? in India, but never dared to ask. - Mark Shand, author of Travels on my Elephant and winner of the Travel Writer of the Year award.

About the Book: The Kama Sutra Diaries Intimate Journeys Through Modern India Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a sexploration through modern India by train, plane and auto-rickshaw. From the heat of antirape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the cool hills of Shimla, playground of the Raj, from a Gujarati retirement home for gay men and eunuchs to a busy sex clinic in Chennai, from patriarchs to matriarchs, GIGs (Good Indian Girls), BIGs (bad Indian Girls) and the fleshpots of Bombay, she accompanied by feisty Delhi girl Dimple, lifts the...  Read More