{"title":"Mridula Garg","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"chittacobra-paperback","title":"Chittacobra - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375111438559,"sku":"9789354474231","price":36.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/s5WC04aRAE9789354474231.webp?v=1789193059"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mridula-garg.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}