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Any reference to the girl Pramila who be longed to the general ref ibious group Hindu and the community Thandan had to begin with caste and end with caste. Pramila’s psychological and emotional problem was her casteism which had always been…
Chairs on either side of a painted two by two inch square rose wood table. A tray containing tomato chilli sauce, vinegar, salt and pepper and a few small porcelain dishes. The smell of U.S. pizzas. The chillness of Coke,…
When his arms stretched towards her naked underbelly, she pushed them roughly away. ‘Don’t touch me,’ she hissed. ‘What if I touch you?’ ‘You don’t have the right to.’ ‘Am I not your husband?’ ‘Are you?’ ‘Why? Do you have…
Preface: O ruthless Traveller, why did you break with your stories wild The idol in my heart, the meaning of my life ? The idol sans any vice, full of naïve wildness, Adorable, the only one to penetrate my tapasya…
Forum for Discussion In this issue of Samyukta we discuss contemporary women writers `A woman writer,’ wrote Miles Franklin in the early 1900s, ‘except in rare instances, has no protection such as enjoyed by men who use their…
Review of the contributions of a Major Thinker This issue of Samyukta highlights the contributions of Jawaharlal Nehru Born on 14 November, 1889 into an aristocratic family of Kashmiri Pandits who had migrated from Kashmir to Delhi and from…
Act One of Saketam is set in Ayodhya, at the very dramatic moment when Sri Raman is declared the crown prince. The evocative description of how Kosalam should be decorated and the list of things that Vasishtan requires…
In this issue of Samyukta we carry the third and concluding part of the autobiography of Devaki Nilayangode As I said earlier, I was only 15 when I reached Nilayangode, my husband’s house. I didn’t know anything about the…
Abstract: This paper addresses at a general level the role of feminism in revitalising epistemology. This is hoped to be achieved neither by understanding feminism as a separate and distinctive branch of philosophy, nor by arguing for the ability…
Abstract: The conventional large patriarchal family is now a statistical minority. The number of fissioned families is on rise and the size of traditional joint or extended families has become gradually smaller. Kin marriages are becoming less and less common.…