Erotica in Indian Dance

This is an extraordinarily fascinating and interesting work as discernible from its title, and at the same time courageously deals with a delicate and dangerous subject, very artistically and lucidly treated by a cognoscente of Indian Dance. The author has clearly distinguished between human and divine sex, and has opened a window on a world that most of us hardly realise exists. He has emphatically pointed out that eroticism in Indian Dance is a grave misnomer and unjustified stigma attributed to the sublime romanticism and spiritual dalliance of the heavenly superhuman characters, the acknowledged originators of Indian Dance, and hence the correct interpretation of the so called eroticism in Dance has been impressed by him in great detail. The writer unflinchingly holds the view that Indian dance is divine, and sex, a necessary adjunct to dance, is also divine; and their intertwined spiritual characters cannot be separated. There are no reservations in this astonishing book, sex, religion, history of fine arts of the country, ancient scriptures, politics, social setup, dogmatic notions, superstitious beliefs, Hindu conception of life contrasted with the west, place of fetish worship, philosophy, amusement, marriage — all these things are passed on review. The result is a book one cannot put down from the first page to the last. The book represents Indian Dance that is real, and is the best his is an extraordinarily fascinate expression of the best thought reduced in writing, where one is lost in writing, where one is lost in Elysian reverie.