Author: Shinie Antony
Several Contributors/
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Shinie Antony
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 255
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788129114730
Description
There exist Keralas, both volubly at loggerheads with each other. This anthology of fiction, non-fiction, memoir and travelogue records the sound bytes.
GEOGRAPHY
A landscape lush and green An eco disaster in the making…
POLITICS
Multiple hues, multiple parties Talking the same talk?
HISTORY
The traditional, the indigenous Do we keep what is imported?
SOCIETY
Fresh blood needed Or an old age home?
COMMENTS
When people ask me who I am, I always I’m a Malayali. And they all seem to know what that means.
- SUSAN VISVANATHAN IN ODD MORNING
Contents
The Leaf and the Thorn…
SHINIE ANTONY
1. Odd Morning
SUSAN VISVANATHAN
2. The Strange Sisters of Mannarkad
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
3. The Countryside
M. MUKUNDAN
4. Everyday and The Avant-Garde: The Evolution of Society and Literature in Kerala
K. SATCHIDANANDAN
5. Hijack
PAUL ZACHARIA
6. Stone The Sin, Not the Sinner
VARKEY CARDINAL VITHAYATHIL
7. Orhan Pamuk, Nair and I
ANITA NAIR
8. The Argumentative Malayali
D. VIJAYAMOH
9. The Night they Arrested the Moon
K. R. GOWRI AMMA
10. A Medicine that cannot be Prescribed
S. S. LAL
11. The Mundu Brigade
YUSUF ARAKKAL
12. Three Men on a Train
SHEILA KUMAR
13. Silent Cats
OMCHERY
14. Sitrep Seventies
HORMIS THARAKAN
15. Fort Lines
SHREEKUMAR VARMA
16. Chinese Takeaway
M. V. RAPPAI
17. The Clove
SARAH JOSEPH
18. Music and Lyric
RAMA VARMA
19. Houseboat Story : A Travelogue in Disguise
JAYANTH KODKANI
20. A For Anglo
STEPHEN PADUA
21. A Matter of Faith
VINOD JOSEPH
22. My Urbanization
A.J. THOMAS
23. Not Sex Please, We Have Cable
SURESH MENON
24. The Gift
NIMZ DEAN
25. Building Brand Kerala
SHASHI THAROOR
26. Happy
OMANA