The Inner Courtyard: Stories by Indian Women

Lakshmi Holmström

Literature & Fiction

Rupa&Co

A modern classic, Water is a curiously cool reflection on the chaos of life in the city.

Water ([Katha trailblazer series)

Ashokamitthiran

Contemporary

Katha

In 2003, a group of men and women, setting themselves up as guardians of Tamil culture, objected publicly to the language of a new generation of women poets - particularly in the work of Malathi Maithri, Salma, Kutti Revathi and Sukirtharani - charging the women with obscenity and immodesty. More than a decade later, a deep divide still persists om the way readers and critics perceive women poets. Tamil women poets have been categorized as 'bad girls' and 'good girls'. The traditional values prescribed for the 'good' Tamil woman are fearfulness, propriety and modesty. Our poets have chosen, instead, the opposite virtues - fearlessness, outspokenness and a ceaseless questioning of prescribed rules. This anthology celebrates the poetry of the four poets through Lakshmi Holmstrom's English translation.

Wild Word: Four Tamil Poets

HarperCollins India

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Books by Lakshmi Holmström