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Corruption in government, hypocrisy in religion, avaricious greed in business: these are some of the targets of Kshemendra`s one-thousandyear- old satires. So are superstition and sexual obsession, anomalies in education and a host of other ills of the time. Written by a celebrated name in classical Sanskrit literature, these little known exposAs of fourteenthcentury society find resonance in the Indian subcontinent even today.
Author Bio: A.N.D. Haksar is a well-known translator of Sanskrit classics. Educated at the universities of Allahabad and Oxford, he was for many years a career diplomat, serving as the Indian high commissioner to Kenya and the Seychelles, minister to the United States and ambassador to Portugal and Yugoslavia. Haksar`s translations from the Sanskrit include The Shattered Thigh and Other Plays, Tales of the Ten Princes, Hitopadesa, Simhasana Dvatrimsika, Subhashitavali and Kama Sutra, all published as Penguin Classics. isbn-9780143063230
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Pages : 184
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