Irked by a headache Revati shuts the file. It’s three o’clock. “During winter, time doesn’t seem to move beyond three. So many hours before it’s five,” says Bharati, who is typing, next to her. Revati, smiling softly, says: “That’s…
Abstract: A literary work becomes a very effective instrument of social change when the author has the motive to rebel against the social atrocities of a particular period. Such works play their role as messiahs by attracting a large number…
The plays of C.N.Sreekantan Nair ushered in a change in the Kerala theatre scene. Lankalakshmi is the second play of a trilogy of plays on Rama, the hero of the Ramayana. The first of the plays is titled Saketham and…
1 Spinning and whirling like a top, bouncing up and down like a ball, she didn’t know a woman body lay coiled on her hissing taboos: she must not roam in her undergarments,. she must not bathe in the open,…
He was currently into Indology followed, neck to neck, by Egyptology. He kept his mind agile through unusual pursuits that placed him diagonally opposite unusual women and then he inched his way forward by a strategy he had perfected through…
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…
The hanging bridge Was indeed a thing of beauty. It always stood up To house its functions With a generosity of spirit Making it ever golden In the lore of the bards And the lute of the maiden The rainbow…
She sat before the inner sanctum of the Ardhanareeswara temple, binding koovala leaves into garlands. The young man asked, “What are these garlands for?” She said, “To adorn the deva. I sell them to devotees for a price.” “Give me…
Abstract: This article examines Attukal Pongala – a contemporary women’s offering to the goddess Bhagavati at Attukal Temple in Kerala, South India – and its practices, myths and rituals from the viewpoint of the researcher and the women who…
The true measure of night is night Night’s only claim is that it is night It’s necessary to push the night to the brink of dawn There’s no need to call the entwining of the four hands an embrace With…
The newspaper lies in a messy heap on the dining table. The sports page which had been pulled out by Ashish, has rolled down and settled on the carpet dogeared and stained. The tomato sauce has left a blood…
An unknown adivasi, Janu was first introduced to the world when a literacy worker (presumably) entered her name in a register at the age of seventeen as Chekot Karian Janu. It was the recent agitation by the tribals in Thiruvananthapuram…