Posted in feminist writing, poetry, writing on October 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“The Calicut Literary Festival is an initiative by the Institute of Languages, Kerala State, as a unique way to emphasize the meaning and delight of reading and listening to written words, all the more at a time when it is being propagated that books go down in the present day preferences of life. Organized as [...]
Posted in blogging on October 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I couldn’t blog, I couldn’t respond to emails, I couldn’t call, I couldn’t do anything that I had planned to do this month…
Curiousity killed the crow, so don’t ask my why?
It’s just that when you hurt someone you love, you end up hurting yourself. I’ve learnt the lesson.
Posted in feminist writing, fiction, untouchability, writing on October 27, 2007 | No Comments »
The God of Small Things was the first book I genuinely fell in love with. I read it when I was fourteen (which means a year or two after it won the Booker). And loved it enough to force it down on all my class-girls. And they loved it to. I still remember when [...]
Posted in caste on October 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Someone could come up with something like this:
“If it were possible to invent a method by which a few men sent from a distant country could hold such masses of people as the Hindus in subjection, that method would be the institution of castes. There is no institution which can so effectually curb the ambition [...]
