Volume 15, No. 1 – 2015

Articles

• The Rite-Woman deconstructed: The Sita-problematic and the Story of Manushi by RIZIO YOHANNAN RAJ Posted in: Life writing, Culture, Articles Abstract: This article covers the aim and target functions of the women's publishing in English in India, named Manushi. In conversation with the founder of the publishing house, Kishwar discussed the various multi-faceted attributes of women that need to have… Continue Reading
• The Right-Woman Demythified: The Emergence Of Kali, Stree and Asmita by RIZIO YOHANNAN RAJ Posted in: Life writing, Culture, Articles Abstract: The paper follows the women’s empowerment trajectory from being the oppressed to taking control into their own hands. Standing on their moral grounds as to what has to be done to uproot themselves from discrimination, they take the road… Continue Reading
• Why I do not call Myself a Feminist? by MADHU PURNIMA KISHWAR Posted in: Life writing, Culture, Articles Abstract: Ideologies can play an important role in uniting people to bring about and hasten social change; in providing inspirational symbols for an organised expression of discontent; and in helping make individual struggles collective. Today, when I refuse to be… Continue Reading
• Feminist Writing and Women in Publishing by RITU MENON Posted in: Life writing, Culture, Articles Abstract: The following encloses the characteristics that are inclusive of an independently run publishing house by women. The reasons why most of their work is in effect of feminist nature speaks in itself of the challenges faced by women’s studies… Continue Reading
• The Story of Stree-Samya by MANDIRA SEN Posted in: Life writing, Culture, Articles Abstract: What has primarily interested me in the thirty-five-odd years I have spent in publishing is participation in knowledge creation, and what ‘qualifies’ to be knowledge’. Scholarly, academic publishing does just that. I have also been concerned about trying to… Continue Reading
• The Write – Woman Recovered Vag Devi As Decreator by RIZIO YOHANNAN RAJ Posted in: Life writing, Culture, Articles Abstract: These samples are presented here to illustrate various ways in which ‘decreation’ becomes manifest in literary writings. Sometimes it defies the societal norms, some other times, it helps one transcend the limitations of the human frame. There are instances… Continue Reading
• Entering the World of Children’s Books by RADHIKA MENON Posted in: Life writing, Culture, Articles Abstract: After college, I taught at the J. Krishnamurti School (The School KFI) in Chennai from 1978 to 1979. I did my B.Ed while teaching there, so in effect, I went to teach with no background - just my curiosity,… Continue Reading
• The Years gone by by CHANDRA CHARI Posted in: Life writing, Culture, Articles Abstract: It was a bitterly cold winter day in January 1976 when the first issue of The Book Review was proudly displayed by its three founding editors - Chitra Narayanan, Uma Iyengar and Chandra Chari - at the New Delhi… Continue Reading
• Think- Woman Cometh:The Questioning Gargis of our Times by RIZIO YOHANNAN RAJ Posted in: Life writing, Culture, Articles Abstract: The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad presents an engaging interaction between sages Gargi and Yajnavalkya. It takes place in the palace of Janaka, the King of Videha, who performs a sacrifice where scholars from different lands are invited to present their Vedic… Continue Reading
• Paper Dreams by C. S. LAKSHMI Posted in: Life writing, Culture, Articles Keywords: women in publishing, oral history, visual history project, different biographical work, women scientists SPARROW's foray into publishing began as a tentative venture in 1997. Before that we had brought out only a report of a workshop with college students… Continue Reading
• When We Dared to Publish: Experiences of an Editor by G. S. JAYASREE Posted in: Life writing, Culture Keywords: women’s initiative, journal of women, University of Kerala, regional language, women faculty, editorial policy, women initiatives, women’s issues I had always nurtured the wish to be an editor. This desire to be an editor together with the dream of… Continue Reading
• Woman Enterprising: The Yellamma Paradigm by RIZIO YOHANNAN RAJ Posted in: Articles Abstract: The story of Goddess Renuka who is commonly worshipped as Yellamma in most South Indian states is an illustration of the enterprising woman. In Maharashtra, Renuka temple in Mahur is deemed one of the Shakti peethas, and it would… Continue Reading

Interview

• The Story of a Ripple-Making Pebble by GEETA DHARMARAJAN Posted in: Interview Keywords: women in publishing, mother tongue, poverty alleviation Geeta Dharmarajan, Founder and Executive Director of Katha in conversation with Rizio Yohannan Raj and Abhirami Sriram (2006) RYR: Why did you start KATHA as a publishing house that exclusively publishes Indian… Continue Reading
• Zubaan: The Tongue of Kali by URVASHI BHUTALIA Posted in: Interview Keywords: feminist publisher, Indian publishing, Indian languages, non-fiction, women’s empowerment, Zubaan (This is a conversation between Urvashi Bhutalia and Rizio Yohannan Raj) RYR: As an activist who ventured into publishing in English, did you ever feel torn between the world… Continue Reading
• Out of Print: The Long Short Story by INDIRA CHANDRASEKHAR Posted in: Interview Keywords: short fiction, short story, Indian subcontinent, danger of extinction, Indian languages (A conversation between Indira Chandrasekhar and Rizio Yohannann Raj) RYR: As Out Of Print is a rather recent initiative, perhaps we could start this conversation with the story… Continue Reading
• Gyaana by DIVYA DUBEY Posted in: Interview Keywords: authorz coracle, self publishing, first time writer (A conversation between Divya Dubey and Bhargavi Chandrasekharan)1 BC: Would it be fitting to call you the “one woman army” spearheading the successful “Gyaana Books”? Also, many congratulations on your latest publication… Continue Reading