My mother came home one day without her uterus. The doctor took it out. Like someone heard me say Let’s act it out, act it out physically. I was the baby who never cried The snake on your breast who…
companions on my early morning ride milkmen ladies taught by lady and i to put education in unwilling heads who have reluctantly left their unyielding beds early morning joggers with pot bellies to hide dogs in hoary colours brown black…
The Naalayira-divya Prabandham is the sacred collection of 4000 hymns of the twelve alwars or the saint-Poets of the bhakti school of Sri Vaishnavism. The prabandham is divided into four parts —Mudhalaayiram, Thirumozhi, Thiruvaaimozhi and Iyarrpa. The different parts explain…
Love Generosity : A Translator’s Note on Avvaiyar Children in Tamil Nadu grow up reading Avvaiyar, a poet whose work scholars usually place in the 12th century. You can often hear grade-school students repeating after their teachers the opening statements…
ATIMA SRIVASTAVA There she is, she walks. Little girl. Bones. That blue nylon dress. What did they use to call it? Crimplene. The bodice is fitted. Although there are no curves on her, the skirt flares carelessly, the material can’t…
That day too, Ashok had gone away after a quarrel. As he left, he kicked a stool out of his way. The stool that was thrown against the wall seemed to lend an emphasis to his protest. She was also…
I felt that the mornings were monotonous. That was why I began to long for the evenings. Now that I am a patient, I stand amazed as the strong line of defence ebbs away. I make tasty food and drape…
Profile of a Feminist This issue of Samyukta gives a profile of Gloria Anzaldua in its regular series on major feminists Nearly eight decades ago, Virginia Woolf published her feminist manifesto A Room of One’s Own which initiated the quest…
Unlike other ethnic writers growing up under colonialism and discovering the freedom of postcolonial identities, I loved my colonial education. The school I went to summed up the cultural complexity of Hong Kong in the 50s and 60s. From the…
Keywords: Jhansi regiment, Indian national army, Subhas Chandra Bose, World War II, post-independence, gender discrimination, child marriage, economic justice, social reform, freedom fighters, women’s studies (This interview was conducted on 11 September 2006) How do you find words to describe…
Abstract: The following article is an attempt at analysing the concept of romantic imagery in relation to uproot the marginalisation and subordination of the subaltern woman. The co-relation with the natural entities that surrounds the adivasi brings about a component…
Abstract: This is an excerpt from an unpublished book Children of Nature: Sacred Mantfestation and Popular Culture in Tiruvannamalai, which I wrote over ten years, from 1995 to 2006. The work attempts to interlace questions of pilgrimage both in sociological…
