Currently the Principal Secretary of the newly established Department of Minority Development, Government of Maharashtra Mrs. Thancy Francis Thekkekara, has had a long and distinguished career. She is a dedicated officer who has worked consistently for the empowerment of women…
Kalanidhi Narayanan (b. 1928) is recognised with the highest of national and artistic awards for her recovery of methods of abhinaya, particularly, padam and javali forms that celebrate human love. She was ferreted out from retirement in 1973 by dance…
Keywords: Jhansi regiment, Indian national army, Subhas Chandra Bose, World War II, post-independence, gender discrimination, child marriage, economic justice, social reform, freedom fighters, women’s studies (This interview was conducted on 11 September 2006) How do you find words to describe…
Antonia Navarro Tejero interviewed Rajini Tilak in New Delhi, India, in November 2004. Rajini Tilak was born in Delhi, on 27 May 1958, the eldest of seven siblings, into a poor family. Her father was a tailor and to continue…
Teacher, academician, poet and short story writer besides being so many other things in personal life, noted Malayalam writer Geetha Hiranyan was just too busy to stop for death. But he kindly stopped and carried her away in his chariot…
Renowned poetess and environmentalist of Kerala, Sugathakumari was born at Aranmula in January 1934. She is the second daughter of poet Bodheswaran and Prof. V. K. Karthiayani Amma. Soon after getting her Masters Degree in Philosophy, Sugatha Kumari devoted herself…
One of the avowed intentions of Samyukta is to define feminism from the Indian context. Very few Malayalam writers have been so staunchly for feminism and the woman centered perspective as Sara Joseph. In her writings, Sara Joseph has always…
Smt. Swarnakumari Menon is known to us only as the President of All India Women Conference, Kerala chapter. But in fact she is one of the persons who created history in the freedom movement of our country. Clad in white…
FROM AN INTERVIEW SREEDEVI K. NAIR Kamala Das can best be described as a superb artist and a literary phenomenon. An incomparable poet, a painter, a short-story writer and a novelist. She is a good juggler as well. She juggles…
