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Meena Kandaswamy’s Blog- Book Review: Sam’s Story by Elmo Jayawardene October 30, 2009(First published in The New Indian Express, 02 August 2009.) Sam is poor, Sinhalese, and a servant in the Master’s River House. His only best friend is the owners’ dog Brutus. Sam is someone who can never figure out what a problem is, someone who doesn’t know why people cry. He has never learnt anything, not [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Books and Blogging: My Side of the Story October 16, 2009This presentation was made at the Panel Discussion on The Digital Public Sphere: Books in the Age of New Media, Oct. 15, 2009, Iowa City Public Library as part of the 2009 Obermann Humanities Symposium PLATFORMS FOR PUBLIC SCHOLARS. Professor Teresa Mangum at the Department of English, University of Iowa invited me to this, and [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Two links: an interview and an essay October 5, 2009Back from SFO, but I am not going to write anything here.. If I verbalize things too soon, I just guess it could end up being superficial… So, will instead just share two links (one is an interview, the other is a panel paper I read in Iowa).. This interview (by Dr.Ujjwal Jana appeared in Post-colonial [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Rough-cut schedule September 18, 2009This monday I got back from a helluva weekend at Pittsburgh (I was in about six events crammed into two and a half days) and I kept eating as if I was eating for a whole family. Like once every two hours. Here, in Iowa City, I starve most of the time. But compared to [...]Meena Kandasamy
- If you ever find me September 3, 2009saying the Pledge of Allegiance some day, you can be sure that it is because of the libraries here (at least the University of Iowa’s Main Library). I am allowed to check out 500 books. At once. Can it get any better? At all? God, I so love this place, this arrangement. [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Apologies, and Updates September 3, 2009I know, I know, I haven’t come this side in two months nearly…. And far worse, as if hiding away from the blog was not enough, I have not even replied many of your email messages properly.. I am trying hard to get through the email… so bear with me… If all goes well, all unreplied [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Review of V.V.Ganeshananthan’s LOVE MARRIAGE September 1, 2009(Exclusive to my blog, this hasn’t been published elsewhere) DANCING ON LAND-MINES Love Marriage By V.V.Ganeshananthan Publisher: Phoenix Price: Rs 350 Pages: 310 Set in a land where death is alive and has renewed lifetimes, Love Marriage, is a work of fiction that deals with the ethnic strife in Sri Lanka. By tackling the complex issues of violence, p […]Meena Kandasamy
- 10 days later July 22, 2009I come here to just retain my sanity… 1. I submitted a 20-page synopsis of my Ph.D. thesis. After three drafts and plenty of torture. Finally. So the title and etc are decided… For now, all that I can safely say is that my thesis is on classroom dynamics and learner identity. More horror stories will [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Flowers of Violence: Review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Thing Around Your Neck July 12, 2009With her latest book The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who won the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun, proves that she is much more powerful on the rigorous terrain of the short-story. Hailed by Chinua Achebe as a “writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers,” [...]Meena Kandasamy
- I have aged 10 years in two weeks and July 11, 2009I wish this kind of slow horror stops. My sister tells me part of the reason for things spiralling out of control on the personal and domestic front (I hope I sound as vague as any astrologer) is that I am no longer normal. In her words, “Akka, because of this PhD tension, and the [...]Meena Kandasamy
- Book Review: Sam’s Story by Elmo Jayawardene October 30, 2009
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