women's desire

Published on 16th January, 2021, in Mumbai Mirror. Desire is a recurring theme in some of earliest verses of Hindu tradition, found in the Rig Veda. It is what inspires creation itself. It is what Apala craves when Indra offers her a boon. It is what Lopamudra demands from her husband Agastya, who is distracted by rituals. It is what makes the apsara Urvashi fond of the human king Pururava, before she abandons him for the pleasures of Paradise. There is also a rather bizarre hymn where the mighty Indra’s desirability and virility is paradoxically dependent on his queen, Indrani, copulating with the even more ..