This is one of the best reportage I have read in a long time of a much-traveled landscape; from the days of Sangam literature and dictums of Thiruvalluvar to Thyagrajas music, Andals sweet songs, the words that flow from this land have so far been soft as the kanji, green like the paddy fields. It is marvellous that a young writer has brought the red of the blood into the words on this land, which is not just beautiful, but sad— sorrows of the back lane of the Nagore darga against which bodies piled up on 26 December 2004, or the old dank temples and their deserted granaries on the Kavery banks screaming for attention or the gingelli that has pushed out the paddy. This HarperCollins publication, however, has had very few reviews, we wonder why there is no buzz generated around this book? Perhaps because it is written by a woman who uses the f-word liberally and it is undeniably a political tome and no one wants to praise it because that would be taking sides and the medias patriarchy does not allow that. And in this age of keeping neutral, ignoring what is labled fiction would be the right thing to do perhaps. From the book link review/write-up of sorts that discusses Gypsy Goddess. You can read it here: booklink.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=252&Itemid=662 Personally, as the author, I think that the book has got more media space than I had anticipated (but then I am an absolute agmark pessimist and I expected book to sink without any trace). So, while I cannot analyse the book and its reception with any objectivity, and I do not want to be angst-ridden because as far as I am concerned my duty ends with the writing of the book, it does make me sit up and notice that someone has written an appraisal that puts the book and the author in a certain perspective.
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