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September 24, 2020
by Kiruthika Shivashankar

Beirut ’75

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…

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Category: Books
September 6, 2020
by Kiruthika Shivashankar

My World of The Unknown

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…

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August 30, 2020
by Kiruthika Shivashankar

She Has No Place in Paradise

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…

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Category: Books

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Kiruthika Shivashankar

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