One of the aims of Samyukta is to publish works of good quality written by relatively little known writers. The personal narrative we chose for this issue is different from other extracts that our earlier numbers carried for it is…
VI My marriage took place when I was fifteen. I knew about it only two days before the ceremony. It was customary for the maidservants to inform the girl of her forthcoming marriage. On their way to the pond for…
How was life like for a woman of high birth in Kerala some fifty-sixty years back? Popular belief has it that she had a privileged existence with the joint family set-up and the matrilineal system of inheritance, enjoying all emotional…
