By Sarah Thankam Mathews
No normal girl will even say something like that, Kamala, my mother had hissed into the phone, no normal girl wants to be alone, how can you even say such a thing.
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Sarah Thankam Mathews
On The Storms
Aditya & Sarah
I think I realized anew how much a strong emotion, like female rage, can supply an cohesive emotional texture to a story. People who know me are surprised at my stories sometimes, because they know me as this sort of gentle, even-keeled person, and then they'll read something absolutely biting or furious and seem confused or wonder if it's some sort of cathartic outlet. It's not, for me. It's craft.
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Sarah & Palvashay
So the narratives of sacrifice, the incredible gendered violence on both sides of the damn Radcliffe line, or just the image of a woman in a white sari that is also so commonplace in Bollywood. And while it's not always connected to Partition violence, trains in South Asia will always have the specter of the British hovering about. So then my project became how can I rework this? Can we conceive of this as Partition Gothic?
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