Profile of a Feminist This issue of Samyukta gives a profile of Hélene Cixous in its regular series on major feminists ‘Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be…
Abstract:The first part of this paper discusses the emerging profile of the elderly in Kerala for the next fifty years based on certain projections, followed by the micro-analysis of elderly living conditions from the recent migration survey conducted by the…
Samyukta – A Journal of Women’s Studies in association with the National Book Trust, New Delhi organized a Malayalam Women Writers’ Meet at the Government Guest House, Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram on March 31, 2004. The function was well-received and was graced…
They boarded a Pallavan Transport bus parked at Paris Corner bus depot, he through the front door, she through the back one. He sat down in the seat just behind the driver, she in the long seat at the back.…
Forum for Discussion In this issue of Samyukta, we discuss the PNDT act. In the 1991 Census, the sex ratio (i.e. number of females per thousand males) in India as a whole was 927. Further analysis of the census data…
Review of the Contributions of a Major Thinker This issue of Samyukta highlights the contributions of RabindranathTagore Rabindranath Tagore has created myriads of women in his short-stories, dramas and novels. But they cannot be said to represent his ideal woman…
Undoubtedly the most versatile and accomplished of the literary women of the early period in Orissa, Kuntala Kumari Sabat’s (1901-1938) claim to fame is meteoric as well as tragic. Born to Christian parents, Daniel (a physician) and Monica, Kuntala spent…
He hated both – his job and his name but could change neither. Keshavan carted corpses for a living, interring unclaimed bodies irrespective of their religion. They were those who lived and died as numbers in the census records. Most…
On a cold noon of January, I reclined on the bed, recounting a story to the children. Beyond the thin blue curtains of the bedroom was the pale sky. Near me were the bright faces of my children. Though their…
An end always denotes a beginning. When life ends in one form it begins in another. So death is the beginning of life. Amba lay in bed, slowly preparing to give up her life of fairly long duration, to enter…
A column of sunlight, resembling smoke in its movement, had fallen into the bathroom through the glass ventilator. While taking her bath, Mehrunnisa often squirmed like a child. And every time she did so, the ray of light, awakening her…
Characters Dasarathan Vasishtan Sumanthrar Guhan SreeRaman Lakshmanan Sutradharan Kausalya Kaikeyi Sita Mandhara atha kena prayukto ‘yam pâpam charati pûrushah anichchhann api vârshneya balâd iva niyojitah (The Bhagavad Gita. III-36. Then impelled by what does man lead such a life of…
