In his delightful childhood account 'Love, Kiss, Mary, Fac', Pankaj Butalia vividly describes his hilarious but innocent sexual encounters as a child growing up in the small town of Ambala in north India. Unscathed by these brushes with the world of sex, Butalia lived to tell the tale. And how well he tells it, in Dark Room, India's first book on child sexuality written for the general reader.

Pankaj Butalia is a documentary film-maker and a former lecturer at the Sri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.