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Of Love and Betrayal: Kamala Das's “Letter from Radha”

Image courtesy:nickyskye.blogspot.com Kamala Das’s short story “Letter from Radha” from the collection of stories Sandal Trees is a prose poem on the Radha--Krishna love. Unlike the Bhakti poets who celebrate the Radha--Krishna love of the Vrindavan days as an ideal love beyond the norms of traditional courtship and are silent about Krishna’s later desecration of that love, Das, in her story, prefers to interrogate Krishna’s change of heart after he left Vrindavan. She demythifies and demystifies the Radha--Krishna love and shows it to be what it really was—a love that ended abruptly in betrayal and abandonment, a love that left Radha broken-hearted. Das's story shows how cruel a man can be even to the woman he loves. Krishna,when he becomes a king , man-like, deserts Radha, and she, woman-like, lives like one dead pining for her beloved for in true love there is no such thing as “getting over it.” Even ...

June is Yellow, London's Blue

Photo courtesy:Clip2art.com Once upon a time there lived in the garden of a house in London a pair of swallows with their baby swallow. By the time the little swallow learned to fly it was late autumn, the time for the swallows to migrate, to start their long, long journey to a warmer climate. So taking their young one with them they flew away from London city, across France, across the Pyrenees, across Spain, across Morocco, across the Sahara and reached their destination in Africa. When it was time for them to start their return journey the swallow- parents began to talk to the baby swallow about how wonderful it would be in London when they reach the city in the summer, in the sunny month of June. If they are lucky they may find the nest that they abandoned to be in good condition despite t...

She Pens to Protest

I write Because I cannot bite It’s the way Image courtesy: uk.pinterest.com ...

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