Review: Chittacobra by Mridula Garg
Mridula Garg ran into trouble for writing Chittacobra back in 1979. Her novel was branded obscene and she was briefly arrested along with her publisher. Chittacobra was Garg’s third Hindi novel – an intense and intimate love story between two young married people – an Indian woman and a missionary from Scotland.
Reita Faria having breakfast in bead at the Waldorf Hotel in London the morning after she was crowned Miss World in 1966. Chittacobra is set in the same era. (HT Photo)
In a piece in Scroll last year,…