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"The Singer and the Song is the first of C.S. Lakshmi's three volumes of detailed interviews with 50 notable women in the arts in India. She recounts the experiences of legendary greats in the field of music, both vocal and instrumental like Gangubai Hangal, Naina Devi, Dhondurai Kulkarni, Veena Sahasrabuddhe, the Sikkil Sisters, Sukanya Ramgopal, and many others. What I really wanted", she says, "was to cry and understand the artistes as women ...
Mirrors and Gestures: Conversations with Women Dancers is the second of C.S. Lakshmi’s three volumes of detailed interviews with notable women musicians, dancers, and painters in India. Here she recounts the experiences of well-known classical dancers like Chandralekha, Zohra Segal, Sita Pooviah, the Jhaveri sisters, Chandrabhaga Devi, Indrani Rehman, Leela Samson, Alarmel Valli, Malavika Sarukkai and others, as well as Ranu Bai, a poikal kudirai (dummy-horse ...
The seventeen stories collected here represent the work of the innovative Tamil writer Ambai. Over the past twenty years Ambai has broken new ground, both in terms of fictional forms and the courageousness of her subjects. She has been constantly open to experiment: her stories vary from gem-like prose poems to fantasy and surrealism and to realistic psychological explorations.