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Anitha Thampi

Anitha Thampi is an engineer by profession. She has been writing poetry since her schooldays and was rated as a very promising talent in Malayalam very early. Her poems have appeared in Malayalam journals since 1986. Her first collection, Muttamadikkumbol, appeared in 2004.

Anitha’s recent poems display a remarkable attention to the use of words, which endow them with a lean, almost sculpted grace. She often dwells on the everyday, the seemingly humdrum, placid drift of life, and yet conveys the violence and turmoil that lurks just below the surface.

Here we produce an extract from her interview.

Interviewer – V.M. Girija

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Sukhwant Kaur Mann

A well-known woman fiction writer of Punjabi, Sukhwant Kaur Mann is considered to be a writer who has artistically documented the changes effecting the economic, social and personal relations in Punjab during the post Green Revolution period. She is among a few Punjabi writers who have delineated minutely the causes and effects of mechanization and urbanization on rural life. Capturing tumult in the relationships caused by the crumbling of feudal structure and seeping of corruption and politics in all walks of life is the hallmark of her latest writings. Contrary to the known image of green, bubbly and well fed Punjab, one finds in her writings a Punjab that is pale, exhausted, suicidal, drugged and frustrated.

Besides one novel, she has six short stories collections to her credit and two collections of prose-poems. She has also written seven story books for children.

Here we produce an extract from her interview.

Interviewer – Mr Sidhu Damdami

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