Volume 12, No. 2 – 2012 Life Writing Vol. XII - No. 2 - July 2012 Articles Writing Lives by RAJESH V. NAIRIdentity by SamyuktaA Repairable/ Perfectible body-Self-Image: Reading Cancer and its Cosmetic Concerns in Select Narratives by BINI B. S.Counter Histories of Modernity in Kerala: Reading ‘not so good’ Women’s Autobiographies by SHERIN B. S.Life Written on Walls: Graffiti Subculture as life Writing by PHILIP JOSE AND E. A. IBRAHIMWomen’s Life Writing by RAJESH NAIRLife Writings and Communities of Memory: A Reading on the Narrative self of Kuriyedathu Tatri by MEERA K. G.Trauma and Survival: Reading Karukku as Testimonio by RUNA CHAKRABORTYAutochoreography As Autobiography: Dancing with the pen and Penning the Dance in Martha Graham’s Blood Memory by TEENA RACHEL THOMASTranslating Life: Language and Cultural Politics of the self in Kamala Das’ ente katha and my Story by ANU LEKSHMI U. G.Mapping the Contours of Femininity in Modern India: A Study of Binodini Dar’s my Story and my life as an Actress and Durga Khote’s, Durga Khote by SULFIA SANTHOSHNationalism by RAJESH NAIRThe Making of the Nationalist Imaginary Postcolonial Stakes and Nationalist Claims in the film Velu Thampi Dalawa by RENJINI R.Celebrity Culture and Writing the Nation: Sachin Tendulkar as the Alter ego of the Indian Middle Class by SHAHID C. S. AND HARINARAYANAN S.Cartooning Gandhi and the Politics of Representation by RAJESH V. NAIRMemory by RAJESH NAIRScripting Death: Obituary as life Writing by PARVATHY DASEvent as Metaphor: Memory, History and Meaning of a Murder in Pre-Partition Punjab by GIREESH J.Life Writing and Visual Culture by RAJESH NAIRVisualising Trauma:a Photo Essay of Endosulphan Victims by HARINARAYANAN S.Sculpting Lives: A Reading of the Life Narration of Adi Sankara at Kalady by PHILIP JOSE AND RAJESH V. NAIRLife Writings in Translation by SamyuktaInterviews as life Narratives by RAJESH NAIRInterview Meera Velayudhan -an Interview by CHANDRAMOHANKalki Subramanyam –an Interview by CHANDRAMOHANBengali Migrant Labourers- an Interview by PHILIP JOSE, E. I. IBRAHIM AND CHANDRAMOHAN Translation Autobiography of Jacob Rama Varma, the Native Missionary by RAJESH V. NAIR.Songs as life Narratives:translation of a few Jewish Women’s Songs in Malayalam by PHILIP JOSE