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Brush With Tantra

t seems i ronic that when modern, urban Indians hear the word ‘Tantra’, they first think of flower power and sex, of Allen Ginsberg, the Beatles, Jimmi Hendrix and Sting. The primness with which most Indians treat Tantra is based more on these superficial associations than

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