{"product_id":"chittacobra-mridula-garg-9789354474231","title":"Chittacobra","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeScriPtion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'As far as writing about sexuality is concerned, as long as [women] write like men, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeverything is fine. There is a protocol about writing about sex. As long as you follow that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprotocol, you're fine. In Chittacobra, the problem that people had with the supposedly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoffensive pages is that this woman treats her husband as a body and reduces him to a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommodity... This was very hurtful to male egos. Women are forever reduced to bodies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand commodities but women aren't allowed to do that to men, to their husbands. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethink this is the reason everyone got so angry.'-Mridula Garg on the charges of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eobscenity brought against her when Chittacobra was first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1979, Mridula Garg released her third Hindi novel, Chittacobra, the story\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof an intense love affair between a young Indian woman-disconnected from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher home, social milieu, marriage and husband-and a gypsy missionary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom Scotland. There was an uproar-the novel was branded obscene and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epolice came to arrest her. But the controversy also took this remarkably frank\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand sensitive exploration of love and desire to many thousands of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt became, and remains to this day, one of the most celebrated works of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtemporary Hindi literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMridula Garg's brilliant new translation brings this extraordinary book-as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebold and distinctive in literary style as in its theme-to a new generation of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereaders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mridula Garg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9354474233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354474231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.48d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mridula Garg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44131722133759,"sku":"9789354474231","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63bd08f3-118e-4bf7-a634-a6d62b92a6a1.jpg?v=1687476024","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chittacobra-mridula-garg-9789354474231","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}