The Tenth Rasa

Welcome to the carnival of nonsense-where hankies turn into mischievous cats, a messiah is born with her feet in her mouth, you can fave hun by socking on the ree-raw and your favourite corn cakes are made of . . . are you sure you want to know? For the last eighteen hundred years Indian arts have been seen in terms of strictly classified emotional effects known as the nine rasas. The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense celebrates, for the very first time, what Sukumar Ray called 'the spirit of whimsy', or the tenth rasa, through the topsy-turvy, irreverent, melodic genre of nonsense…