Harum - Scarum Saar & Other Stories

Author: Bama
Translator(s)/Editor: N Ravi Shanker
Publisher: Kali/Women Unlimited
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 105
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188965286

Description

From the author of the highly acclaimed novels, Karukku and Sangati, a jewel-like collection of short stories, in a translation that retains the freshness and inventiveness of the original Kisumbukkaran.

Set among the Dalits of Tamil Nadu, these ten stories display the full potential of the weapons of the weak-the dominant Brahmanical order is not openly challenged, but bawdy comments and Subversive intent undermine the authority of the powerful. Rustic humour takes the indignity and suffering of lower-caste life in its stride, and bristles with the raw energy and vitality that comes from living close to the ground

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR:

N RAVI SHANKER live sand works in Palakkad, he regularly translates from Malayalam and Tamil into English. He is the translator of Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of Ck Janu (2004

Contents

Pongal
Annachi
Harum-Scarum Saar
Chili Powder
Rich Girl
Those Days
Ponnuthayi
Half-sari
Freedom
An old man and a buffalo