Volume 6, No. 2 – 2006

Articles

• Asian Women in International Migration by LEELA GULATI Posted in: Development, Articles Abstract: Asian labour migration has undergone some major and dramatic changes since the early eighties. Overall, geographic mobility within Asia has increased enormously and the population flow levels of Asia are amongst the highest in the world. More specifically, the… Continue Reading
• Globalisation and Trafficking of Women and Children by RREKHA PANDE Posted in: Development, Articles Abstract: One of the major problems of recent times after globalisation is the alarming proportion of trafficking of women and children for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Trafficking is one of the worst forms of human rights violation. Adolescent… Continue Reading
• Women Workers in Textile Industry by ANU SAKSENA Posted in: Development, Articles Abstract: This article studies the employment of women in the textile industry of India. It examines the patterns of women’s employment in both the organised and unorganised sectors of this industry. The textile industry offers a valuable case study of… Continue Reading
• Contemporary Women and Political Participation in India by GAYATHRI N. LOKHANDE Posted in: Power, Feminisms, Articles Abstract: The hallmark of the Indian constitution is that it guarantees the fundamental principles of popular sovereignty, adult franchise, right to equality and prohibition of discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, community, religion and social justice, thus ensuring the… Continue Reading
• A Narrative of Dysphoric Homecoming: M.G.Vassanji’s the in-between World of Vikram Lall by SUPRIYA M. Posted in: Literature & Literary Studies, Articles Abstract: This paper aims to critically analyse the narrative styles interpreted by M.G. Vassanji in the novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. A book that entails the Diaspora encircling the protagonist, Vikram Lall. A profound and careful examination of… Continue Reading
• Trinh.t.minih-ha: Nneither Black/red/Yellow nor Woman by ROSHAN THOMAS Posted in: Articles Abstract: This paper focuses on the terminology ‘identity’ and what meaning it holds in a post-colonial world. The concepts of othering or otherness are looked into closely with respect to the status of women in a post-colonial third world society.… Continue Reading

Fiction

• A Woman Named Madri by ALISTAIR PADMA Posted in: Fiction The moon gleamed peacefully. It was the night of the full-moon, the pournami. Hastinapura was bathed in silver beams. Pandu looked wistful. Ile had wanted to spend the evening with Kunti. It was so long since he had had any… Continue Reading

Poetry

• Chrysanthemums by NEERADA Posted in: Poetry He always came when the chrysanthemums bloomed, not a deliberately timed arrival though. The staked, serrated white blooms stark white in the darkening winter dusk he hardly noticed. Ushering him in, her bashful glance, trembling fingers, split second confusion he… Continue Reading
• Sickle Hammer Star by ANITHA THAMPI Posted in: Poetry Sickle Joins the crescent In the heavens. Star returns to the eyes of children. Hammer alone, aching from an unromantic genesis, starts blowing on the nail heads fated to hang history in pictures. FIGURING You: A dot of sun I:… Continue Reading

Translation

• When the Horse Spoke by CHUDAMANI Posted in: Fiction, Translation Fear gripped her voice, when the ceramic horse smiled and said ‘hello. Ma, the horse is talking! She began to wail aloud. Maragatham rushed to hug her daughter. Sobs quivered in the folds of her sari. My dear, oh my… Continue Reading
• Yellow is the Colour of Longing by K. R. MEERA Posted in: Fiction, Translation She had jaundice. Really. So everything looked yellow to her. The streaks of grey in his hair, his intelligent eyes, his well-clipped, clean nails, everything. And he had a new strain of viral fever. So her curly hair, pale cheeks… Continue Reading
• My Death by CATHERINE THANKAMMA Posted in: Fiction, Translation Though I taught in a school for ten to fifteen years, I just don’t know how to tell a story or describe an incident in an interesting way .You see my subject was mathematics. I always thought things out carefully--added… Continue Reading
• Sitara Speaks by SREEDEVI K. NAIR Posted in: Interviews, Translation Sreedevi K Nair in conversation with Sitara, a frontline short story writer in Malayalam. As a writer what do you write and for what? I write what I feel like writing. If you ask me why I write, frankly, I… Continue Reading
• Panthi Bhojanam by SANTHOSH ECHIKANAM Posted in: Fiction, Translation Susan Immanuel, whom her friends called the traveling restaurant, dismantled the various containers of her tiffin carrier one by one and placed them on the table. Remya Nair fished out kovakka mezhukku puratti and chilli kondattam from underdone matta rice.… Continue Reading
• Voices of History by VOLGA Posted in: Fiction, Translation Ms Popuri Lalitha Kumari (b 1950), better known as Volga, is a famous name in the field of contemporary Telugu literature. Besides authoring several novels, most notably Sahaja, Akasamlo Sagam, Gulabilu, Manavi and Kanneeti Keratala Vennela, and short story collections,… Continue Reading
• Ye Trees, Swaying Ramblers by ANVAR Posted in: Poetry, Translation Ye, ancient tales that once cast shadow tents along the blue grassland* trails Satis who dived into every drop of pyre to seize a thousand suns Stiff blocks, tough to the chisel Young shoots ignorant of the tang of soil… Continue Reading