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Updated On: 12 October, 2009 07:40 AM IST | | Daipayan Halder

Orgy at Bengali wedding, incest in conservative Pakistani family. Electric Feather, an anthology of erotic short stories, raises the standard of subcontinental sex writing... and much else

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Orgy atu00a0Bengali wedding, incest in conservative Pakistani family. Electric Feather, an anthology of erotic short stories, raises the standard of subcontinental sex writing... and much else

Ghomtar tolay khamta naach. That's a Bengali proverb. Crass, but compelling, what it means is essentially this: behind the veil there's vice. That Indians and their neighbours are prudish about sex, is known. What is also known through myriad sex surveys in city tabloids and magazines, is that though we don't talk about it, we can't have enough of it. Nothing is taboo, if you keep it under wraps. What Ruchir Joshi, the editor of the book, has tried to do, is remove the wraps. And voila, what do we have!