Fire 1996: Exploring Lesbianism in the controversial contexts of Feminism, Religion and Sexuality

 Posted on February 21, 2012  |  8 minutes  |  1511 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

This bold movie tells the story of two women who are married to brothers in a joint family. Through shared loneliness, they soon start a secret affair within the household. [Read More]
A.R.Rahman  affairs  baby manufacturing  barren  Bombay  china  chinese  chinese girlfriend  deepa mehta  Fire 1996  girlfriend julie  gods  good wife  hinduism  infidelity  jatin  joint family  krishna  lesbianism  love  loveless marriage  myth  radha  ram  rama  ramayana  secret affair  sex  shabana azmi  sita  unable to bear children 

"And who, in God's name, is He?" A Book Review on 'Ka'

 Posted on February 11, 2012  |  14 minutes  |  2920 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

_By _****N.S.Jagannathan Ka: Roberto Calasso. Translated from original Italian by Tim Parks. Vintage Paperback 1999 Pages 448. Price $ 3. . Amidst the deafening din of post-Colonial chatter on the dark designs of Orientalists “colonising the source texts”, of the colonised, I am all the time nagged by a niggling doubt: how literate are these critics in Sanskrit and other native Indian languages? [Read More]
agni  Book reviews  ka  literary texts  myth  N.S.Jagannathan  native minds  orientalists  philosophy  rig veda  rishi  roberto calasso  source texts  veda  vedas  Vintage paperback 

Dreaming Through ´Ka´

 Posted on February 9, 2012  |  1 minutes  |  149 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

The author seems to be trying to achieve the effect of time all being one moment. The effect of this hits the reader in full force in the end when it goes back to Garuda, who was last mentioned in the first chapter reading the Rg Veda, waking up from a light doze on the word ‘Ka’. [Read More]
agni  buddha  dreaming  garuda  idols  ka  krishna  many arms  myth  mythical interpretation  rig veda  rishi  roberto calasso  timless  veda  vedas