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Introduction / Yigal Bronner and Charles Hallisey Shriharsha's Sanskrit Life of Naishadha : translator's note and text Points and progression : how to read Shriharsha's Life of Naishadha / Gary Tubb "If I'm reading you right ..." : reading bodies, minds and poetry in the Life of Naishadha / Thibaut d'Hubert Ativirarama Pandyan's Tamil Life of Naidatha : translator's note and text Hearing and madness : reading Ativirarama Pandyan's Life of Naidatha / N. Govindarajan How we read / Sheldon Pollock Malamangala Kavi's Malalyalam Naishadha in our language : translator's note and text I talk to the wind : Malamangala Kavi's Naishadha in our language / Sivan Goren-Arzony In the garden of love : an essay on Naishadha in our language / Meir Shahar "Khwaja the Dog-Worshiper" from The story of the four dervishes : translator's note and text How not to see a dog-worshiper / Jamal Jones A historian reads a fable / Muzaffar Alam "Touch" by Abburi Chayadevi : translator's note and text How to touch "Touch" / Gautham Reddy "Don't stand so close to me!" : remarks on Chayadevi's "Touch" / Sanjay Subrahmanyam "A street pump in Anantapuram" and five other poems by Ismail : translator's note and text Speaking of landscapes, revolutionaries, and donkeys : Ismail's words and images / Afsar Mohammad Between sky and road : the wandering scholar, modernism and the poetry of Ismail / Gabriel Levin The music contest from Tiruttakkatevar's Tamil Chivakan's gem : translator's note and text Love in defeat / Talia Arlav Sweetness that melts the heart / Kesavan Veluthat What's gained in translation / Sonam Kachru Two songs by Muttuswami Dikshitar performed by T.M. Krishna and Eileen Shulman : translator's note, texts, and recordings Beyond passion, beyond even the Raga / T.M. Krishna Reading as an act of trust / Donald R. Davis Desire and passion ride to war (unknown artist) : selector's note Pillars of love : a dialogic reading of temple sculpture / Anna Lise Seastrand Side observation of a small portion of Varadaraja-svami Temple / Tawfiq Da'adli Ravana visits Sita at night in the Ashoka Grove, from Kamban's Tamil Ramayana : translator's note and text Kamban's Tamil as a kind of Sanskrit / Whitney Cox Can darkness stand before light? : encountering an episode from a medieval Tamil masterpiece / Yehoshua Granat When a mountain rapes a river, from Bhattumurti's Telugu Vasu's Life : translator's note and text Irreconcilable differences and (un)conventional love in Bhattumurti's Vasu's Life / Ilanit Loewy Schacham Desire, perception, and the poetry of desire : a reading of Vasu's life / Deven Patel "The ten on the wild boar" : translator's note and text Reading "Ten on the wild boar" / Archana Venkatesan Three poems about love's inner modes : translator's note and text Between us : reading Tamil Akam poems / Jennifer Clare The unbaked clay pot in pouring rain : reading Sangam poetry today / R. Cheran Nammalvar's Tamil A hundred measures of time : translator's note and text "You came so that we may live" / Anand Venkatkrishnan Taking the measure of A hundred measures / Andrew Ollett A Persian Ghazal by Hafez and an Urdu Ghazal by Ghaleb : translator's note and text How a Ghazal thinks / Rajeev Kinra The Ghazal of What's more than real / Peter Cole Afterword / Wendy Doniger.
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