(Erotic) writing in ... India

       In the New Indian Express Shilpa Raina looks Between the Sheets: Sex and Sensuality in Indian Literature, as the country of the Kama Sutra has long also had a very prudish side.
       I'm not sure I'm encouraged learning that:

For many, the defining moment for "erotica" came in India in 2011 with British author E.L.James' 50 Shades of Grey in which lust rode over the storyline, and in many ways its worldwide success resurrected the genre of erotica.

       And what to make of the claim:

Initially, it still was a struggle to convince writers to write erotica.

       See also Pradhuman's piece in The Asian Age, on Literature of desire.
       (And see also the Index of Erotic, Pornographic, and Sex-related books under review at the complete review.)