1. A Sanskrit term meaning "desire," although the intensity and strength of desire as a driving force often results in people relating it to lust. Although this lust is often seen as sexual, it is also the lust for life and experience. Kama is also the name of the ancient Indian deity of desire.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
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