BY ARUNDHATI GHOSH Episode 2: Death does not us part My first tryst with death happened, Ma says, when I was four and our pet parrot Mithu just wouldn’t wake up one morning to eat her seeds. She hung her head and sat stiff on her perch. Ma said she had gone to sleep forever. I did not understand ‘forever’. For children, time runs differently. … Continue reading Footloosing Frontiers
BY ARUNDHATI GHOSH Review 1: Shanta Gokhale’s One Foot on the Ground Shanta Gokhale is an incredible woman. Anyone who knows her or her work will say so. And that’s why I had trepidation about reading her autobiography. In my experience women seldom do justice to themselves when they are telling their own stories. They shrink their achievements self-consciously, or smother their brilliance under a … Continue reading Never At Her Wit’s End
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