Three Satires from Ancient Kashmir

Caustic brilliant satires of everyday life in ancient Kashmir Corruption in government hypocrisy in religion avaricious greed in business these are some of the targets of Kshemendra's one-thousand-year-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 exposes of eleventh-century society find resonance in India even today.