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Madhavi Menon's Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India is a work of breathtaking brilliance which takes one from the history of paan to the not-so-Hindu history of yoga.

The popular professor of English at Ashoka University, Madhavi Menon talks to Kaveree Bamzai about sexual prudery and how goddesses are reproduced in the Hindu pantheon.

The book tears into almost every theory the right wing would like to uphold from the sanctity of marriage to the Hinduness of yoga. How does it feel to write a book that flies so squarely in the face of the mytho-history

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