Posted in Ph.D. students, PhD, blogging, feminist writing, poetry, women, writing, tagged academic institutions, sexual harassment on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a quick update to let you know that one of my poems ‘Girl Friday at the University‘ (no prizes for guessing its origins, or why it came to be written) is up on Ultra Violet..
Posted in culture, poetry, vulgarity, writing, tagged favourite reading, Toni Morrison on January 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My work is up at Talking Poetry on Open Space India, edited by poet and novelist Priya Sarukkai Chabria.
It includes some of my favorite poems… (that are already out here on the web) and Deciphering a Culture (that appears for the first time on the web)… and which I feel is a very one-off poem for me. Go, read it.
And [...]
Posted in culture, depression, fiction, influence, writing, tagged muse, teenager on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I still keep wondering whatever happened to that site? Five years ago, say in 2002/3, it was one of those portals (that was updated every week) where an amateur writer could get herself published. And when I googled, I found this obit
That was the time when I was just out of school and into [...]
Posted in fiction, novel, virginity, writing, tagged ian mcewan, virginity, sexual revolution of the 60s, arranged marriages on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been down with a fever whole of this week, and thankfully for me, I got the opportunity to read a lot of stuff…
So, I have been reading (Since I can’t really think of better things to do in bed) a whole lot of academic stuff… And also some fiction.
Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach [...]
Posted in Eelam liberation struggle, tamil films, violence on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a still from Aaniver (Tap Root) a moving love story of Indian journo Sandhya and a Tamil Eelam doctor Nandha shot in the backdrop of the civil war raging in Sri Lanka. When I saw the film three months back, I knew it was depicting real things. But I was also thinking that somehow, cinematic representation makes things look [...]
Posted in Dr.Ambedkar, PhD, Poetry with Prakriti, caste, domestic violence, feminist writing, poetry, politics, translation, untouchability, violence, women, writing on January 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
“For a man, the woman is the Dalit in the house.”
or
“As a writer, I can have a zero-tolerance policy for any kind of oppression. It gives you the freedom to be a one-woman army. Moreover, in Tamil literature, we have this strong tradition of writers who very powerfully articulate what is happening in the [...]
Posted in blogging, caste, feminist writing, untouchability, women, writing on January 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve become a regular contributor on Ultraviolet,
a blog by young feminists on life in India.
And my first post is an interview with Dalit feminist and activist Ruth Manorama,
who recently won the Right Livelihood award. Read it here
She talks very brilliantly about how caste oppresses women of the inferiorized castes, as well as women of the oppressive castes. And also of how, the feminist movement, in its weakest moments, is caste-ridden. I love her, and her work, and the interview is one of those dear things in my life.
Posted in PhD, blogging, depression, eating disorder, younger sister on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I haven’t been putting up any kind of personal posts in a long while… Now that this year is coming to an end, I think I should just look back at it. Personally, it has been a mixed year… The death of a close friend, a cousin, and a classmate: all young men in their [...]
