Ep 161: The History of Desire in India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Desire of Architecture
Jamali camali's darga shows how the tomb itself is both male and female, right? Youactly. To go back to what we were saying earlier, when we said, you know, this desire is desire, and that desire is not desire. And it's a male sign of masculinity overlaid by a sign of femininity. Without deciding necessarily which one is the correct one or the proper one, it's giving us, quite literally, a homaphroditic desire. Tand i was also struck in all of this as not just gemali and comali. The graves are very carefully delineated between male and female.
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