Echoes of the Veena and other stories: Short Stories
Language: English
Published by Ratna Books 2019-08, 2019
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- New
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- Title
- Echoes of the Veena and other stories: Short Stories
- Author
- Chudamani, R.
- Publisher
- Ratna Books 2019-08
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PF
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9352907531
- ISBN 13
- 9789352907533
This collection of eighteen stories in English translation is vintage Chudamani. The stories explore a variety of themes, such as the psychological landscape of a girl who had to stop going to school, of the insecurity of a mother who sucks the life out of her child, of a deserted woman who stands tall with her self-respect intact, of the loneliness of a forgotten actor of yester-years. Two stories tell the tales of two exceptional musicians (both dead) and their wives; but the likeness ends there. Two stories speak of two fathers and their daughters; but the similarity ends there. In the midst of simple, straightforward narration, the master storyteller makes a sharp, ironic comment on social barriers and taboos.
Chudamani understood children, she understood persons with disabilities; she understood men too. But many of her stories centre around the woman with her anxieties in the role of a wife, sister or mother. She tells us: this is how She is, She feels, and She lives and struggles. Chudamani does not judge; nor does she say that the woman is perfect.
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About the Author
PRABHA SRIDEVAN is a former judge of the Madras High Court (2000-2010) and the former chairperson of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (2011-2013). Her judgments have dealt, among other things, with the right to freedom of speech, protection of water bodies, protection of heritage buildings, rights of the oppressed classes, rights of persons with disabilities, right to information, right to education, rights of children, gender equality, mental health, the economic worth of a homemaker's work, compulsory licensing of a cancer drug, and challenge by Novartis to India's Patent Act. She writes regularly in English and Tamil on issues of law and life. Seeing in the Dark (OUP, 2015), a collection of short stories by Chudamani, was her first work of translation. This is her second.
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