This is one of the shortest editorial I have written. This is because, Dr. Veena Poonacha has taken over the responsibility of collecting material and coordinating this number and I want her voice to be heard. The guest editorial…
The condition of health eludes definition. This number of Samyukta, put together by Bini B.S and Koshy Tharakan examines health as a discourse that is deeply subjective, and at the same time is often seen through the…
This is a brief note on the papers selected for this number of Samyukta. It offers an overview of contemporary Indian Writing in English (IWE), in the last quarter of a century. We had not set a critical agenda…
Debates over the regulation of sexuality reflect fundamental assumptions about everyday life that shape the social, cultural and political life in all societies. This number of Samyukta introduces some of the key concepts, questions, and analytical tools developed by…
“Writing is slow, Ma’am, but will reach there. Issues as always at home. My son did not take it so well that I took three months off for doing “my thing”. He’s 14 now and well, it’s the beginning…
This number brings together papers presented at a colloquium organised by Samyukta: A Journal of Women’s Studies and the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, La Trobe University, Australia. The colloquium was an attempt to problematise the concept of…
This issue of Samyukta carries To the Workplace, arguably the first feminist play in Malayalam, written and staged by the members of the Antharjana Samajam of Thrissur in 1948. It is based on the real life experience of thirteen-year-old…
The last number of Samyukta put on show women’s writing in Malayalam from the early decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this number, we would like to project the work of Rajalakshmi, whose stories and poems on…
Here is a collection of stories written by women – daughters, rebels, wives, lovers, outcastes – in Malayalam. Most of them are drawn from the collection, Maunathinte Nanarthangal, The Many Meanings of Silence, edited by N.K.Raveendran. In his collection,…
Samyukta is a journal that is constantly changing. Each issue is different and explores new areas. Sometimes people say the stand we take is traditional, by which they mean orthodox, and not in the interests of women. At other…
Supriya, Radhika, Hema, Jayasree and myself – bound together by love and respect for one man – Dr. K. Ayyappa Paniker. He was a poet with the wisdom of a philosopher and the charisma of a rhetorician, but to us…
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, said Marx more than a century ago. In ‘Panthi Bhojanam’ (The Communal Meal), a story by Santhosh Echikkanam that we carry in this number, we have the travesty of history in…
