Abstract: This article discusses the use of pronominal and kinship terms in the patriarchal Namboodiri community. The aim of the article is to reveal the patriarchy reflected in language. It has been found that the position of the dominant…
Abstract: Women in Kerala, despite many indicators like favourable sex-ratio, literacy, access to education and health care are far from being equal members of the society. The state has witnessed many socio-political changes in the last hundred years. But the…
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…
Abstract: In today’s world of advanced technologies, mass media with its capacity to standardise, homogenise and transform ideologies plays a great role in the formulation of femininity as a set of social expectations created and nurtured in any patriarchal society.…
Abstract: The history of Malayalam novel — a history that spans more than a hundred years — is also the history of the depiction of power. The chief novels of each period in Malayalam has manifested this characteristic. Along with…
Abstract: An examination of Indian women’s fiction focussing on women’s issues presents any number of women defeated, ‘dis’empowered and crushed by the forces they have been struggling against. This essay discusses the above factor drawing examples from contemporary Indian fiction…
Excerpts From An Autobiography Excerpts From An Autobiography K.R. Gouri Amma was born at Cherthala in a family of radical background in July 1919. Ever since 1917 with the origin of the ‘Sahodara Samajam’ movement of K. Ayyappan, and the…
“Taking one’s own life — surely that’s a sign of cowardice — of inadequacy and cowardice.” “I won’t grant you that it’s cowardice. Is it cowardice to throw yourself before a moving train?” “Oh, no, brave of you, then? Just…
When the foetus was murdered None felt her quiver of voiceless protest When the witch was slaughtered Her intense raucous cries were just grotesque Between the female foetus and the witch Falls the shadow of the woman Her anointed conditioned…
Abstract: In all socialised communities there is a regular power structure though it may not be visible clearly, except to the discernible eye. The power of the rulers over the ruled, the power of man over woman, the power of…
“Far above is the sky Far below is the Earth. You are the Earth I am the sky.” Aha ! how profound! give food to fill my belly give dreams to fill my sleep; who is the giver here, who…
Jayakrishnan simply loved girls. He was at that particular age when girls bewitched him day and night with the mystic charms of snake groves full of forbidden treasures. That was why, when Shobha and friends asked him tongue in…
