Kama: The Story of the Kama Sutra

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JAYA MISRA is a writer, creative director and producer in the world of television, films and documentaries. She has also nurtured projects on sports, fashion and fiction.

Deeply influenced by the works of Anais Nin, Erica Jong, and Virginia Woolf, Jaya takes a keen interest in issues pertaining to women's rights.

Jaya believes that Vatsyayana was not a mere ascetic, but one of ancient India's first feminists.

Witty, passionate, caustic and opinionated, Jaya often writes tongue-in-cheek articles under a popular pseudonym.

Kama: The Story of the Kama Sutra is her debut novel.

Tonight, the Moon is not mine.

Tonight, she turns her face away from me.

She sits in the sky, floating in silence, determined to spurn my affections, she chooses not to shine on me tonight is she finally disgusted with me? Or is she tired of my trying nature, hate I have taunted and teased her, made her weep in shame and agony.

Or does she hide her tears as she remembers the touch of my fingertips en her cool soft glowing face?

I sit under the Shiuli tree, the breeze softly blowing the river's whispers to me...

I see these spidery words crawl from my shaking old fingertips, my veins look translucent tonight, as though the blood in me is water.

I ache with longing for her to come and soothe me with her cool sikker touch.

But she has made up her mind tonight...

I think about my journey, I think about the Moon and me.

Some say that my story began the day the Moon Goddess descended into the lake in Kalpnagri. Others say it began the day my eunuch mother, Ramanna, found me in the village garbage disposal dump.