: Indu Menon’s short stories of blood and gore feature women who will not go down without a fight #IndiaNEWS That was what really threw Pashumala. What Dipakaran used to, from the time of his birth

Indu Menon’s short stories of blood and gore feature women who will not go down without a fight #IndiaNEWS
That was what really threw Pashumala. What Dipakaran used to, from the time of his birth till his death, call “perdition???, that “Tamil perdition??? – as the culmination of a series of events beginning with the dwarf Kandasamy – after being exiled from India – discovering a cannabis plantation in the Nandikadal lagoon where the sea had jettisoned him and allowing it to flourish from circa 1960 onwards; later moving on to become a plantation slave; morphing into a swarthy muscleman; eloping with Ujjar, the half Dutch Sidappa’s daughter with pure Dutch features, in a breathless flight all the way to Kilinochi; their love blooming red like cannabis flowers during the sojourn in the old boathouse on blazing hot days redolent with the smells of the provenance of their clan; their life amidst the Tamil hordes that congregated inside it; their hunger, songs and eccentricities; and eventually Dipakaran being born in their midst as their son.After being born in Sri Lanka as one in a pig-litter-like brood, after having forgotten the damp, earthy birth-smell of one’s hoary Tamil ancestry; after fleeing from Lanka as a child, debilitated by rickets, emaciated by chronic diarrhoea, and with hunger stuck to his desiccated bones...Read more

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