Can just a brief conversation give a great deal of info about a couple, a family, society and in general a community? Yes! This made sense to me once I finished reading the short story, “A Spaceship of Tenderness to the Moon” by Layla Baalbaki. A bite-size story exuding with complex emotions! Another short story…
The place where you live in shapes you the most⏤it’s like where you grow up and witnessing what? Having said that, think of a post-war or post-colonized region, it shatters not just the landscape but its people, culture, language, minds and all the most their very existence into fragments. Ghada al Samman, in her Beirut…
I ordered this book, The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories by Women, to read one of Laila Baalbaki’s short stories but ended up loving Alifa Rifaat’s. Hence, postponing Laila for a while! So, what’s so enchanting about this story? As a kid, we all believed in genies! And, a genie bestows his master with everything that he/she…
It’s always exciting to talk about the afterworld! Where would one go after death, paradise or hell? —if there’s something as such. As humorously said, ‘you’ll know only if you die’. But what if someone happens to see paradise, for real, every so often before death. Nawal El Saadawi pictures the life and afterlife of…
I’d like you to be a part of my reading journey and get to know along with me the women writers who’ve been silently transfiguring their areas of interest.
Kiruthika Shivashankar