New on the blog: Some thoughts about a book I read over the weekend. Often when stories from Mahābhārata or Rāmāyana are re-told by most modern or post-modern writers, there is a tendency to interpret or read these stories in the light of presently fashionable intellectual theories, or popular literary fads with superheroes and fantasy. And when it comes to the stories about any of the women in these epics, you have your usual feminism and patriarchy stuff to twist everything to such extent that the story is often lost in all the interpretation of the re-teller. If at all the re-told story somehow escapes the critical lens of a post-modern feminist reading, it may be over-analysed using the present notions of conventional morality or a de-contextualised ethical standard that privileges one side of the truth over many other possible sides. This is where I find Chaturvedi Badrinaths book refreshingly different as well as remarkably authentic and honest in its approach and voice. See more at: letbeautybeyourconstantideal.blogspot.in/2014/10/what-occupied-my-mind.html
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:21:12 +0000
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