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The Rape of Our Epics: Conclusion
Posted on January 21, 2013 | 124 CommentsRead the previous parts: 1, 2, 3, and 4. Here are my tweets that started it all: 1. Nilanjana Roy’s lesbian fantasies about Shurpanakha: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roywoman-alone-inforest/498048/ …. Nothing new. She’s the latest fantasizing kid on the block. 2. A woman who lusts after another woman’s husband... -
The Rape of Our Epics: Part 1
Posted on January 14, 2013 | 49 CommentsIntroduction Nilanjana Roy’s Business Standard piece on Jan 08, 2013 entitled A woman alone in the forest is just the latest in what has become a much-lauded fad. A fad whose staple diet consists of a distorted reading of Indian epics, misinterpretations aplenty, sleights of...