The Sensualist: a cautionary tale is a novella by the Anglo-Indian author Ruskin Bond which created a controversy when it was charged with obscenity in Mumbai. [1] when it first appeared over twenty years ago and was then first published in book form in 1999 by Penguin Book India [2]
It was included along with A handful of nuts in the volume Strangers in the nights : two novellas [3]; this volume was translated into Hindi as [4] and in the anthology of his fiction. [5] stories,