And in other important news, here’s a book I’m excited about.
This is a Zubaan anthology around the theme of motherhood, edited by Jaishree Misra and published in association with Save the Children India. It has stories, essays and poems by many fine writers including Urvashi Butalia, Mridula Koshy, Nisha Susan, Namita Gokhale and Shashi Deshpande. And, ahem, pardon me for preening like a peacock, but it turns out that I am the book’s sole Y-chromosome (or as Jaishree puts it, “our Token Male”). My essay is about depictions of motherhood in Hindi cinema – a predominantly light-hearted piece that (among many other things) touches on the maternal dolphin in Ajooba, the murder-by-electric-guitar scene in Disco Dancer, and the never-to-be-forgotten sight of a snake reluctantly dining on breast milk in Doodh ka Karz. (Little wonder that the title of the piece is the same as the title of this post.) I have also, as I do in everything I write, included a (very brief) reference to Psycho and Mrs Bates.
So do look out for the book - a launch is happening at the Jaipur literature festival on January 25 (schedule here), and copies will be available there.
This is a Zubaan anthology around the theme of motherhood, edited by Jaishree Misra and published in association with Save the Children India. It has stories, essays and poems by many fine writers including Urvashi Butalia, Mridula Koshy, Nisha Susan, Namita Gokhale and Shashi Deshpande. And, ahem, pardon me for preening like a peacock, but it turns out that I am the book’s sole Y-chromosome (or as Jaishree puts it, “our Token Male”). My essay is about depictions of motherhood in Hindi cinema – a predominantly light-hearted piece that (among many other things) touches on the maternal dolphin in Ajooba, the murder-by-electric-guitar scene in Disco Dancer, and the never-to-be-forgotten sight of a snake reluctantly dining on breast milk in Doodh ka Karz. (Little wonder that the title of the piece is the same as the title of this post.) I have also, as I do in everything I write, included a (very brief) reference to Psycho and Mrs Bates.
So do look out for the book - a launch is happening at the Jaipur literature festival on January 25 (schedule here), and copies will be available there.
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