Unputdownable, friendly and fun: my review of Nisha Susan’s collection of short stories, “The Women Who Forgot To Invent Facebook and Other Stories” (original) (raw)

Review of Daniel Miller's 'Tales From Facebook' (Polity 2011)

Ashis Nandy, in his book, 'The Tao of Cricket', claimed that cricket was an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English; after reading Daniel Miller’s 'Tales from Facebook', I would suggest that Facebook is a Trinidadian application accidentally invented by Mark Zuckerberg of the USA. A prolific social anthropologist, Miller has written a book about Facebook use in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, having previously published studies of capitalism, modernity, and Internet use based on fieldwork in the same location.

I and I: Understanding Indian Women’s Autobiography as Camaraderie between Two Selves

Abstract: As one indulges in an autobiography, multiple personalities lay claim upon his/her attention. There is the autobiographer or the author of the autobiography. Then there is the narrative voice and the protagonist of the autobiography. A pensive study of an autobiographical text often perplexes the reader with these multiple characters. Therefore, it is imperative to understand their distinct personalities and how they manifest themselves differently in the autobiography. Understanding their different natures enables a better comprehension of the motives, nature, scope and the particular mood of the autobiography. It also speaks volumes about the impact of the time gap between when the events actually occurred and when they are being documented.

The creative potential of women: A Reading of Ambai’s A Kitchen in the Corner of the House

Abstract C. S. Lakshmi is an Indian writer who is widely known for her short stories in Tamil. She writes under the pseudonym Ambai. Born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in 1944, Ambai calls herself a “feminist who has lived without compromise.‟ Apart from feminist fiction, the Tamil author has been carrying out research in the field of women‟s studies. Her brand of feminism has earned her recognition in literary circles in both India and abroad. Her important research projects include Illustrated Social History of Women in Tamil Nadu and An Idiom of Silence: An Oral History and Pictoral Study. The resulting research has been published as two volumes of the Seven seas & Seven mountains series. The first volume, The Singer and the Song (2000), is a collection of interviews with women musicians and the second volume, Mirrors and Gestures (2003), is a collection of interviews with women dancers. Her popular fictional works include A Purple Sea (1992) and In A Forest, A

The Ignored Self: Women's Life-Stories

Autobiographies delight their readers by taking them behind the scenes of the public personality and tell us about the author's private affairs and thoughts, their home and hobbies, etc. this charms the reader as it gives the reader information of a different kind. Indian women's autobiographies are different from that of men's. Their concerns and dilemmas are different; their expression is bound to mirror their differences. Women are underprivileged than men. Under the patriarchal social order, women are expected to place their traditional roles as daughters, wives and mothers above an individual identity. (Kumar 5