About the Book: Chittacobra
'As far as writing about sexuality is concerned, as long as women write like
men, everything is fine. There is a protocol about writing about sex. As long as
you follow that protocol, youre fine. In Chittacobra, the problem that people
had with the supposedly offensive pages is that this woman treats her husband as
a body and reduces him to a commodity… This was very hurtful to male egos. Women
are forever reduced to bodies and commodities but women arent allowed to do that
to men, to their husbands. I think this is the reason everyone got so
angry.—Mridula Garg on the