I haven't read more than a couple of the Shonku stories. I don't really think there's anything incestuous in Feluda's relationship with Topshe, although I do think Feluda must be either gay or - more likely - asexual. I've always had a huge crush on Topshe, although on the whole I like the fact that Ray didn't make him a mindless skirt-chaser a la Archie. The sexlessness of Bengali children's literature is worth a post on its own; it has its upsides and its downsides. One of its upsides is that until recently, middle class Bengali children didn't enter the whirlpool of sexual competition and rivalry until they left high school. I speak as someone who did enter that vortex when I was a teenager, in the nineties, and was nearly destroyed by body-image disorder and self-loathing.
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Date: 2009-01-20 01:54 am (UTC)The sexlessness of Bengali children's literature is worth a post on its own; it has its upsides and its downsides. One of its upsides is that until recently, middle class Bengali children didn't enter the whirlpool of sexual competition and rivalry until they left high school. I speak as someone who did enter that vortex when I was a teenager, in the nineties, and was nearly destroyed by body-image disorder and self-loathing.