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The Grddha Mullick family takes pride in the ancient lineage they trace from four hundred years before Christ. They burst with marvelous tales of hangmen and hangings in which the Grddha Mullicks figure as eyewitnesses to the momentous events that have shaped the history of the subcontinent.
In the present day, the youngest member of the family, twenty-two-year-old Chetna, is appointed the first woman executioner in India, assistant and successor to her father ...
The stories in Yellow Is the Colour of Longing are unabashedly critical of the status quo. They pull the lid off normal, everyday life in families and the workplace, sometimes cheekily, sometimes with astoundingly bitter sadness. While ‘What the Souls Do at Midnight’ and ‘A Cat, Utterly Personal’ acerbically trace the subtle forms of control exercised on women, the title story explores the absurdity of desire, and ‘The Saga of ...
This collection of early writings of Malayalee women, translated for the first time into English, give us, in the words of V Geetha, texts that dazzle. Written between 1898-1938, they reveal the vigorous debate over modern gender relations that was taking place in this period. Women reflected on what was Womanly, on education, duties, vocation and civil roles, an ongoing discussion, first influenced by reformism and later by nationalist and communist ideas, which ...
This book explores how, in early modern Malayalee society, individualism was inextricably bound on gender difference. As such, the process of 'individualisation' became a process of ‘en-gendering'. Thus, the individual, as imagined in early Malayalee reformism, though deemed to be 'free', was already implicated in new institutions which required capacities specific to each sex. Men and women came to be seen as ideally placed within separate ...