Before he wrote his Booker-nominated Animal’s People, my friend Indra Sinha penned a smart translation of Kama Sutra, where his great corrective was that it was not merely a manual of ecstasy – as Sir Richard Burton might have you believe – but a text about how to live with other people: a spouse, a bossy cook, and, most heroically, even a mother-in-law.

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