{"id":2632,"date":"2002-11-29T22:20:32","date_gmt":"2002-11-30T02:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:37:42","slug":"kamasutra-by-vatsyana-mallanaga-translated-by-wendy-doniger-and-sudhir-kakar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kamasutra-by-vatsyana-mallanaga-translated-by-wendy-doniger-and-sudhir-kakar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamasutra by Vatsyana Mallanaga, translated by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/11\/Kamasutra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-32261\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/11\/Kamasutra.jpg\" alt=\"Kamasutra\" width=\"319\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Read the real and complete <em>Kamasutra<\/em> here for the first time! The first and only translation of the <em>Kamasutra<\/em>, published in 1883 and widely attributed to the 19th-century explorer and scholar Sir Richard Francis Burton, is apparently highly inaccurate. Yes, the <em>Kamasutra <\/em>is about sex, but it\u2019s much, much more: \u201cIt is a book about the art of living \u2013\u00a0about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs \u2013\u00a0and also about the positions in sexual intercourse,\u201d the translators write.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/2002-11-29-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/2002-11-29-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/2002-11-29-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">, November 29, 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2633\" title=\"Kamasutra\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/05\/kamasutra.jpg\" alt=\"Kamasutra\" width=\"127\" height=\"193\" \/>Read the real and complete Kamasutra here for the first time! The first and only translation of the <em>Kamasutra<\/em>, published in 1883 and widely attributed to the 19th-century explorer and scholar Sir Richard Francis Burton, is apparently highly inaccurate. Yes, the <em>Kamasutra <\/em>is about sex, but it\u2019s much, much more: \u201cIt is a book about the art of living \u2013 about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs \u2013 and also about the positions in sexual intercourse,\u201d the translators write.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/05\/2002-11-29-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/05\/2002-11-29-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/05\/2002-11-29-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">, November 29, 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,52,20,6535,17],"tags":[3598,6608,111,5124,13,5125,5126,5127],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-indian","category-nonfiction","category-repost","category-south-asian","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-how-to","tag-kamasutra","tag-love","tag-sudhir-kakar","tag-vatsyana-mallanaga","tag-wendy-doniger"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kamasutra by Vatsyana Mallanaga, translated by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kamasutra-by-vatsyana-mallanaga-translated-by-wendy-doniger-and-sudhir-kakar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kamasutra by Vatsyana Mallanaga, translated by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Read the real and complete Kamasutra here for the first time! 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