Lessons in Lovemaking

I just got back from Calcutta, the city I grew up in. My thoughts on the city shall be for another blog post, but here is a snippet: Oxford Bookstore, Calcutta has a "Sexology" section.

Why sexology and not sex? I don't know and I suspect they don't either. The -logy probably gives the hormones and the carnality a twinge of respectability.

This was on display at the Sexology section of Oxford Bookstore, Calcutta.

What were they thinking? Clearly not a great deal. And it does say something about the city that is desperately trying to give up its ghost.

Image: (c) Sandeep Banerjee - All Rights Reserved

Kolkata: Book City

Kolkata Book City: Readings, Fragments, Images is an anthology of essays and sketches on the book culture of Calcutta published by Textualities, Scotland. My essay in the collection is called Epiphany and Exasperation: The National Library.

More details about this book can be found here.