Abstract: Usha K. B., in her “Political Reservation and Empowerment of Women” discusses the participation of women in Politics, the gender-bias of Political Science, and how the caste system and patriarchy has successfully managed to marginalise women in Indian society.…
(If geometry is the science of space spread on a two dimensional surface) They tell me even a spot in space does not mean anything all by itself; things have relative meaning like the curvature of the earth against the…
Profile of a Feminist This issue of SAMYUKTA gives a profile of Simone de Beauvoir in its regular series on major feminist therorists. One of the factors that has always hailed women’s writing is its invisibility – particularly when juxtaposed…
Review of the contributions of a major thinker This issue of SAMYUKTA highlights the contributions of Sree Narayana Guru, a great thinker and social reformer of Kerala (1856-1928). Romain Rolland says of the Guru, “He was one might say, jnanin…
Abstract: ”Politics of Knowledge and Woman” by Lalitha Lenin talks about the possibility of woman’s empowerment through progressive ideas. In simple terms, she discusses lucidly the artefacts and structure of knowledge, and the hierarchy of power which results in the…
Abstract : Hemalatha Devi G. takes an unusual but poignant peep into the as-yet unexplored realm of Malayalee women autobiography in her “The Stray Goats of the Bazaar: A Survey of Autobiographies in Malayalam by Women” (translated by Bini B.…
Abstract: After the English and the Black women autobiographies, Maya Dutt brings in the Canadian indigenous women’s autobiography as the focus of her “Woman and Autobiography: Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed in Retrospect”. Dutt highlights the resistance offered by Campbell through her…
Abstract: “From Philomela to the Nightingale: The Autobiographical Song of Maya Angelou” by Hema Nair R. gives an in-depth analysis of the five-volume autobiography of Maya Angelou, and captures effectively the significance and exquisiteness of language as used in the…
Abstract: In “The Quest for the Woman’s Self: Virginia Woolf and the Lives of the Obscure” Evangeline Shanti Roy reasons out why Virginia Woolf had a fascination for the unorthodox writing by little-known women, and how Woolf strived to resurrect…
Abstract: The introductory article by Lalitha Ramamoorthy about “Treading the Common Ground: Collective Consciousness in Women’s Autobiography” sets the mood and theme of this issue of Samyukta. It defines autobiography both as a work of art and as a genre.…
The telephone rang. It was my neighbour Paramjit ‘Did you give Madhu a chaddar? ’ ‘Yes….’ ‘I thought it was yours…Look, don’t misunderstand me, but you shouldn’t give her such things. It creates problems for all of us!’ On that…
That Sayani Bhua was really christened “Sayani” is what I believe. It is also possible that the name became hers because of her very correct, mature and “perfect” ways! Who ever dubbed her so was an expert at choosing names.…
