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The Indian Cat: Stories Paintings, Poetry, and Proverbs
Author: B N Goswamy
Publisher: Aleph
Price: Rs 1,299 Pages: 240
The author, who passed away recently, was universally acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on Indian art. This, the last book he ever wrote, is a departure from his usual oeuvre. It is an examination of the feline factor —the cat motif — that runs through art and literature in our syncre–tistic nation.
Although Professor BN Goswamy claims he wasn’t extraordinarily fond of cats as a species, he was obviously more enamoured of them than he was willing to admit. In his preface he
