Author: Sivasankari
Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
ISBN: 8193087127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Sivasankari (born October 14, 1942) is a renowned Tamil writer and activist. She has carved a niche for herself in the Tamil literary world during the last four decades with her works that reflect an awareness on social issues, a special sensitivity to social problems, and a commitment to set people thinking. She has many novels, novellas, short stories, travelogues, articles and biographies to her credit. Her works have been translated into several Indian languages, English, Japanese and Ukrainian. Eight of her novels have been made into films, having directed by renowned directors like K. Balachander, SP Muthuraman and Mahendran. Her novel 'Kutti' on girl child labour, filmed by the director Janaki Viswanathan, won the President's Award. Sivasankari's novels have also been made as teleserials, and have won the national as well as regional 'Best Mega Serial' awards. As a multi-faceted personality, she has won many prestigious awards including Kasturi Srinivasan Award, Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiyar Award, Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 'Woman of the year 1999-2000' by the International Women's Association, and so on. 'Knit India Through Literature' is her mega-project involving intense sourcing, research and translations of literature from 18 Indian languages, with a mission to introduce Indians to other Indians through culture and literature.
Author: Sivasankari
Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Sivasankari is a prolific Tamil author who has written with great awareness on social issues and social problems. Nationally recognised and honoured for her writings, she is the recipient of several awards. Her books have been translated into many Indian languages, English, Japanese and Ukrainian. Some of her major works are Oru Manithanin Kathai, Avan Nandu, Verillatha Marangal and Amma Chonna Kathaikal Knit India Through Literature is Sivasankari's megaproject involving intense sourcing, research and translation of literature from 18 Indian languages, with a mission to introduce Indians to other Indians through culture and literature.
Author: Sivasankari
Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Sivasankari (born October 14, 1942) is a renowned Tamil writer and activist. She has carved a niche for herself in the Tamil literary world during the last four decades with her works that reflect an awareness on social issues, a special sensitivity to social problems, and a commitment to set people thinking. She has many novels, novellas, short stories, travelogues, articles and biographies to her credit. Her works have been translated into several Indian languages, English, Japanese and Ukrainian. Eight of her novels have been made into films, having directed by renowned directors like K. Balachander, SP Muthuraman and Mahendran. Her novel 'Kutti' on girl child labour, filmed by the director Janaki Viswanathan, won the President's Award. Sivasankari's novels have also been made as teleserials, and have won the national as well as regional 'Best Mega Serial' awards. As a multi-faceted personality, she has won many prestigious awards including Kasturi Srinivasan Award, Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiyar Award, Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 'Woman of the year 1999-2000' by the International Women's Association, and so on. 'Knit India Through Literature' is her mega-project involving intense sourcing, research and translations of literature from 18 Indian languages, with a mission to introduce Indians to other Indians through culture and literature.
Author: Sivasankari
Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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I wrote Bridges for two important reasons. Long years before I came to be known as a writer, I heard fascinating accounts of their life and times from my elders. Rukmini Paati, who was part of our domestic staff, said, ‘Those days, married couples only got to speak to each other on auspicious or festive days. Yet these rare interactions were enough to cause pregnancies, much as cotton catches fire in the vicinity of a flame. To what lengths the young women went to attempt abortions! Sesame soaked in jaggery was a favoured concoction. Eating camphor stuffed in coconut and left in it for four days led to burnt mouths and insides, even death.’ Peria Athai, my elder aunt said, ‘We boiled castor oil and poured it into pots and arranged them in a row in bamboo racks, and this oil served both as fuel for our lamps and a laxative periodically administered to all the children.’ You had to stay out of sight of one and all during your periods. During those days, we sat in the cowshed and made brooms and mud stoves by hand, patted and dried cowdung into cakes for fuel,’ my mother recalled. Other elders gave graphic accounts of the puberty rites, four-day-long weddings, and the ‘santi muhurtam’ or marriage consummation ceremony of their time. The lifestyles, practices and rituals of my grandparents and other ancestors of pre-electricity, pre-modern vintage overwhelmed me, amazed me, made me think. This was the first impetus for the writing of Bridges. As for the other... The mellowing of a wilful, temperamental girl into a sober young woman on her coming of age and having to shoulder responsibilities was another fact of life that left me wonderstruck. I found it even more surprising that this once callow young woman whom responsibility made into a wise and effective link between the generations, eventually grew into a complaining old woman, age and debility perhaps robbing her of the wisdom she acquired over the decades. I am sure there are exceptions to the rule, but I speak of the majority. I do believe that an old woman spends the major part of her last years in looking back and ruminating over her past, just as a young girl dreams of her future for most of her waking hours. It came as a revelation to me that a woman is moulded at a certain stage of her life to act as the present that links the past and the future, a bridge that spans two shores vastly separated by thought and circumstance. The birth and death of this process of maturing of the mind that takes place in a woman was my second inspiration for creating Bridges. When the Tamil original, Paalangal was first published in 1983, I dedicated it to all those who helped me build those bridges: Rukmini Paati, Peria Athai, Amma, Yagappanagar Paati, Brinda, Pappamma, Saroja, Kamalam Mami, Swaminatha Mama, Radha, Parimala, Lalita and many other Thathas, Paatis, Mamas and Mamis, whom I did not know before I met them to research for the book. I remember them once again with happiness and gratitude. I rededicate the book also to Mr Balasubramaniam of Ananda Vikatan who unhesitatingly encouraged me and serialised this unusual tale that was in the nature of a concatenation of events and incidents rather than a typical novel. To him and the three artists he commissioned, Gopulu, Maruti and Jeyaraj, whose period-specific illustrations embellished each generation featured in the novel, my sincere, joyous gratitude. - Sivasankari
Author: Sivasankari
Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Author: Sivasankari
Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 773
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‘Knit India Through Literature...' is a mega literary project, first of its kind in Indian literature, is the result of the penance-yagna done for 16 years by Sivasankari, noted Tamil writer. 'Knit India Through Literature' has inolved intense sourcing, research and translation of literature from 18 Indian languages. The project she says aims to introduce Indians to other Indians through literature and culture and help knit them together. The interviews of stalwart writers from all 18 languages approved by the eighth schedule of Indian Constitution, accompanied by a creative work of the respective writer are published with her travelogues of different regions, along with an indepth article by a scholar on the cultural and literary heritage of each of the language, in four volumes - South, East, West and North respectively. Her travelogues, her interviews and the overview of each literature she has sought, all reveal one important unity... the concern our writers and poets express in their works for the problems that beset our country today. Through her project Sivasankari feels writers can make an invaluable contribution with their writings to change the thinking of the people and help eliminate those problems. In this volume ‘South’ she deals with four languages Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil that are spoken in southern region of India.
Author: Nalini Natarajan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031303267X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 451
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India has a rich literary assemblage produced by its many different regional traditions, religious faiths, ethnic subcultures and linguistic groups. The published literature of the 20th century is a particularly interesting subject and is the focus of this book, as it represents the provocative conjuncture of the transitions of Indian modernity. This reference book surveys the major regional literatures of contemporary India in the context of the country's diversity and heterogeneity. Chapters are devoted to particular regions, and the arrangement of the work invites comparisons of literary traditions. Chapters provide extensive bibliographies of primary works, thus documenting the creative achievement of numerous contemporary Indian authors. Some chapters cite secondary works as well, and the volume concludes with a list of general works providing further information. An introductory essay overviews theoretical concerns, ideological and aesthetic considerations, developments in various genres, and the history of publishing in regional literatures. The introduction provides a context for approaching the chapters that follow, each of which is devoted to the literature of a particular region. Each chapter begins with a concise introductory section. The body of each chapter is structured according to social and historical events, literary forms, or broad descriptive or analytic trends, depending on the particular subject matter. Each chapter then closes with an extensive bibliography of primary works, thus documenting the rich literary tradition of the region. Some chapters also cite secondary sources as an aid to the reader. The final chapters of the book address special topics, such as sub-cultural literatures, or the interplay between literature and film. A list of additional sources of general information concludes the volume.
Author: Sivasankari
Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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‘Knit India Through Literature...' is a mega literary project, first of its kind in Indian literature, is the result of the penance-yagna done for 16 years by Sivasankari, noted Tamil writer. 'Knit India Through Literature' has inolved intense sourcing, research and translation of literature from 18 Indian languages. The project she says aims to introduce Indians to other Indians through literature and culture and help knit them together. The interviews of stalwart writers from all 18 languages approved by the eighth schedule of Indian Constitution, accompanied by a creative work of the respective writer are published with her travelogues of different regions, along with an indepth article by a scholar on the cultural and literary heritage of each of the language, in four volumes - South, East, West and North respectively. Her travelogues, her interviews and the overview of each literature she has sought, all reveal one important unity... the concern our writers and poets express in their works for the problems that beset our country today. Through her project Sivasankari feels writers can make an invaluable contribution with their writings to change the thinking of the people and help eliminate those problems. In this volume she deals with Tamil one of the languages spoken in southern region of India.
Author: Prema Nanda Kumar
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788172017330
Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Author: Ambai
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788187649632
Category : Short stories, Tamil
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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A Katha Trailblazer volume, this collection brings together three works of Ambai that explore the issue of female fertility. C S Lakshmi, who writes under the pen name Ambai, strikingly approaches the issue to unveil how women are oppressed and suppressed in the guise of love.
