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The day you step into your twenties you enter the marriageable age, by Indian standards. This poem, talks very hilariously about it.
The day you step into your twenties you enter the marriageable age, by Indian standards. This poem talks very hilariously about it.
Raise your hands if you have been given unsolicited marriage advice at some point in your life. Of course you have. Get married soon. It will be too late if you wait. Once you are married, you can do whatever you want. He is such a nice guy/she is such a nice girl. It is so repetitive that I am surprised no one has come out with a recording similar to the devotional hymns yet. Think of the potential – parents could play it every morning and evening, with the click of a button.
Here’s a way for you to have some fun at the expense of all those tired nuggets of wisdom given by family and friends and strangers. Priyam Redican uses spoken poetry to deep dive into the world of marriages, caste, salary slips, perfect cups of tea and of course, the universal nice guy. Watch and enjoy:
“The perfect guy came once, riding on a horse, caste certificate in one hand and a two-digit salary slip in the other I made poha for him and his mother and her brothers and ten thousand inconsequential others”
“The perfect guy came once, riding on a horse, caste certificate in one hand and a two-digit salary slip in the other
I made poha for him and his mother and her brothers and ten thousand inconsequential others”
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Neena was the sole caregiver of Amma and though one would think that Amma was dependent on her, Neena felt otherwise.
Neena inhaled the aroma that emanated from the pan and took a deep breath. The aroma of cumin interspersed with butter transported her back to the modest kitchen in her native village. She could picture her father standing in the kitchen wearing his white crisp kurta as he made delectable concoctions for his only daughter.
Neena grew up in a home where both her parents worked together in tandem to keep the house up and running. She had a blissful childhood in her modest two-room house. The house was small but every nook and cranny gave her memories of a lifetime. Neena’s young heart imagined that her life would follow the same cheerful course. But how wrong she was!
When she was sixteen, the catastrophic clutches of destiny snatched away her parents. They passed away in a road accident and Neena was devastated. Relatives thronged her now gloomy house and soon it was decided that she should be married off.
Being a writer, Nivedita Louis recognises the struggles of a first-time woman writer and helps many articulate their voice with development, content edits as a publisher.
“I usually write during night”, says author Nivedita Louis during our conversation. Chuckling she continues,” It’s easier then to focus solely on writing. Nivedita Louis is a writer, with varied interests and one of the founders of Her Stories, a feminist publishing house, based in Chennai.
In a candid conversation she shared her journey from small-town Tamil Nadu to becoming a history buff, an award-winning author and now a publisher.
Nivedita was born and raised in a small town in Tamil Nadu. It was for schooling that she first arrived in Chennai. Then known as Madras, she recalls being awed by the city. Her love-story with the city, its people and thus began which continues till date. She credits her perseverance and passion to make a difference to her days as a vocational student among the elite sections of Madras.
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