Ye, ancient tales that once cast shadow tents along the blue grassland* trails Satis who dived into every drop of pyre to seize a thousand suns Stiff blocks, tough to the chisel Young shoots ignorant of the tang of soil…
Sickle Joins the crescent In the heavens. Star returns to the eyes of children. Hammer alone, aching from an unromantic genesis, starts blowing on the nail heads fated to hang history in pictures. FIGURING You: A dot of sun I:…
He always came when the chrysanthemums bloomed, not a deliberately timed arrival though. The staked, serrated white blooms stark white in the darkening winter dusk he hardly noticed. Ushering him in, her bashful glance, trembling fingers, split second confusion he…
Sreedevi K Nair in conversation with Sitara, a frontline short story writer in Malayalam. As a writer what do you write and for what? I write what I feel like writing. If you ask me why I write, frankly, I…
Susan Immanuel, whom her friends called the traveling restaurant, dismantled the various containers of her tiffin carrier one by one and placed them on the table. Remya Nair fished out kovakka mezhukku puratti and chilli kondattam from underdone matta rice.…
Though I taught in a school for ten to fifteen years, I just don’t know how to tell a story or describe an incident in an interesting way .You see my subject was mathematics. I always thought things out carefully–added…
She had jaundice. Really. So everything looked yellow to her. The streaks of grey in his hair, his intelligent eyes, his well-clipped, clean nails, everything. And he had a new strain of viral fever. So her curly hair, pale cheeks…
Ms Popuri Lalitha Kumari (b 1950), better known as Volga, is a famous name in the field of contemporary Telugu literature. Besides authoring several novels, most notably Sahaja, Akasamlo Sagam, Gulabilu, Manavi and Kanneeti Keratala Vennela, and short story collections,…
Abstract: This paper focuses on the terminology ‘identity’ and what meaning it holds in a post-colonial world. The concepts of othering or otherness are looked into closely with respect to the status of women in a post-colonial third world society.…
Abstract: The hallmark of the Indian constitution is that it guarantees the fundamental principles of popular sovereignty, adult franchise, right to equality and prohibition of discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, community, religion and social justice, thus ensuring the…
Abstract: This article studies the employment of women in the textile industry of India. It examines the patterns of women’s employment in both the organised and unorganised sectors of this industry. The textile industry offers a valuable case study of…
Fear gripped her voice, when the ceramic horse smiled and said ‘hello. Ma, the horse is talking! She began to wail aloud. Maragatham rushed to hug her daughter. Sobs quivered in the folds of her sari. My dear, oh my…
