The Sensualist: a cautionary tale is a novella by the Anglo-Indian author Ruskin Bond which created a stir when it was charged with obscenity in Mumbai.[1] 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[4] and included in the anthology of his fiction.[5]