For the last eighteen hundred years Indian arts have been seen in terms of strictly classified emotional effects known as the rasas. The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense celebrates, for the very first time, what Sukumar Ray called the 'Spirit of Whimsy', or the Tenth Rasa, through the topsy-turvy, irreverent, melodic genre of nonsense literature. This fabulous selection of poetry and prose, brilliantly translated from seventeen Indian languages across ...
