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The Fractals
Synopsis
Kaliyug is personified as an ancient woman who narrates the lives of a few guilt-ridden modern women to the children who are lost in the darkness of the jungle. The pattern of the guilts seems repetitive from the bird's eye view of the narrator but to the suffering women; it appears to be an exclusive maze they are hurled at forever to suffer. The lost children who don't understand the world's ways become wolves, and as the story makes sense, they regain their human selves. The narration by the Kaliyug involves tormenting questions related to the simple yet complicated conducts of nature and the intricate, byzantine codes of culture. From one dead end to another, a forever maze of guilts and punishments is all about The Fractals.
Blurb
"This novel is an opportunity for modern women to identify themselves; the Fractals transcends darkness and suffocation to an immaculate breath of life. Unsullied, evoking, and graced with a perfect voice."
RAJATHI SALMA
Writer & Activist
"The Fractals is one of the greatest works of art… it's odd that after completion, it made me numb and peaceful at the same time…."
NALAN KUMARASAMY
Film Maker
About the Author
Shantichitra was born in Chennai in 1978. Her childhood was that of travel and experiences. Her journey through India, which stretched across Nagaland to New Delhi, enriching her cultural and artistic roots, is currently a professor of English Literature at SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai. She has many short stories to her academic credentials, and her themes strive to stir and disturb the tranquility and monotony of life.
Kaliyug is personified as an ancient woman who narrates the lives of a few guilt-ridden modern women to the children who are lost in the darkness of the jungle. The pattern of the guilts seems repetitive from the bird's eye view of the narrator but to the suffering women; it appears to be an exclusive maze they are hurled at forever to suffer. The lost children who don't understand the world's ways become wolves, and as the story makes sense, they regain their human selves. The narration by the Kaliyug involves tormenting questions related to the simple yet complicated conducts of nature and the intricate, byzantine codes of culture. From one dead end to another, a forever maze of guilts and punishments is all about The Fractals.
Blurb
"This novel is an opportunity for modern women to identify themselves; the Fractals transcends darkness and suffocation to an immaculate breath of life. Unsullied, evoking, and graced with a perfect voice."
RAJATHI SALMA
Writer & Activist
"The Fractals is one of the greatest works of art… it's odd that after completion, it made me numb and peaceful at the same time…."
NALAN KUMARASAMY
Film Maker
About the Author
Shantichitra was born in Chennai in 1978. Her childhood was that of travel and experiences. Her journey through India, which stretched across Nagaland to New Delhi, enriching her cultural and artistic roots, is currently a professor of English Literature at SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai. She has many short stories to her academic credentials, and her themes strive to stir and disturb the tranquility and monotony of life.
Lonely Marriages
Synopsis
Sita is separated from her husband and is left lonely with a son with a questionable sexual identity. She meets her childhood friends Suparna and Viren and a few other strangers who narrate their life accounts to her to decide on whether to go for the unconventional love life which was beckoning her. the story is set on the Nilgiris mountain Ghats in an unconventionally built house which has a strange warmth throughout even in the bitterest winter. The house has a studio apartment-style kitchen, symbolizing the modern woman's aspiration. The man in the house yearns for the conventional kitchen, which is hidden and separated from the drawing room and has all the exotic secrets.
About the Book
Sita, a fragile woman with an estranged love life and a son with a questionable identity, seeks revenge on her friends by desiring for herself an amoral lifestyle of theirs. She learns about life and its fundamental nature in the murky lane of becoming what she wants to become.
About the Author
Shantichitra was born in Chennai in 1978. Her childhood was that of travel and experiences. Her journey through India, which stretched across Nagaland to New Delhi, enriching her cultural and artistic roots, has been the key factor of her creative impulse. She is currently a professor of English Literature at SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai. She has a novel and many short stories to her academic credentials. Her first novel, The Fractals, was most appreciated for its lucid and gripping narration through the vistas of rereading Indian and world mythologies. Her themes strive to stir and disturb the tranquility and monotony of life.
Sita is separated from her husband and is left lonely with a son with a questionable sexual identity. She meets her childhood friends Suparna and Viren and a few other strangers who narrate their life accounts to her to decide on whether to go for the unconventional love life which was beckoning her. the story is set on the Nilgiris mountain Ghats in an unconventionally built house which has a strange warmth throughout even in the bitterest winter. The house has a studio apartment-style kitchen, symbolizing the modern woman's aspiration. The man in the house yearns for the conventional kitchen, which is hidden and separated from the drawing room and has all the exotic secrets.
About the Book
Sita, a fragile woman with an estranged love life and a son with a questionable identity, seeks revenge on her friends by desiring for herself an amoral lifestyle of theirs. She learns about life and its fundamental nature in the murky lane of becoming what she wants to become.
About the Author
Shantichitra was born in Chennai in 1978. Her childhood was that of travel and experiences. Her journey through India, which stretched across Nagaland to New Delhi, enriching her cultural and artistic roots, has been the key factor of her creative impulse. She is currently a professor of English Literature at SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai. She has a novel and many short stories to her academic credentials. Her first novel, The Fractals, was most appreciated for its lucid and gripping narration through the vistas of rereading Indian and world mythologies. Her themes strive to stir and disturb the tranquility and monotony of life.
Intimate Strangers
Synopsis
Caught in a mesh of a craving for a baby at 41, Anu looks for every possible reason to hate her husband, Raghu. In her excessive hate for him, she embarks on a journey, end of which she stumbles upon a truth hidden from her—the truth about Raghu's mentally ill sister. Ganesan, who quits a job in a reputable firm and chooses to become a taxi driver, faces third- degree treatment at his own house. The murderous rage that his wife Radha harbors for him and a similar hatred that Shirly feels for her husband Richard is a pattern repeated by almost every woman in a family. Thamarai, a sisterly person to all, balances a harmonious situation for all but, in the end, miserably fails at her daughter's hands. It was then a catastrophic incident that changed everybody's life.
About the book
Like a widow spider who consumes the male once the consummation occurs, the women in the novel would be devouring the men by their demands. The men would seem to have no life of their own but only slogging to settle the family, and yet, in the end, none were entirely satisfied. Raghu is a character who doesn't have any everyday human demands. This nature of Raghu annoys and puzzles his wife, Anu. To find an answer to the puzzle, she embarks on a journey where she stumbles upon a hidden truth that changes her entire perspective. In that situation, Ganesan, who becomes a taxi driver after quitting an engineer's position in a reputable firm, faces third-degree treatment at his house. The murderous rage that his wife Radha harbors for him and a similar hatred that Shirly feels for her husband Richard is a pattern repeated by almost every woman in a family. It was then a catastrophic incident that changed everybody's life. A revelation that dissipates hate and makes one wonder if hate is the only natural way of life.
About the author
Shantichitra was born in Chennai in 1978. Her childhood was that of travel and experiences. Her journey through India, which stretched across Nagaland to New Delhi, enriching her cultural and artistic roots, has been the key factor of her creative impulse. She is currently a professor of English Literature at SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai. She has two novels and many short stories to her credit. Her two novels, The Fractals and Lonely Marriages were well-received for their lucid and gripping narration through the panoramas of culture and life. Her themes always strive to stir and disturb the tranquility and tedium of life.
Caught in a mesh of a craving for a baby at 41, Anu looks for every possible reason to hate her husband, Raghu. In her excessive hate for him, she embarks on a journey, end of which she stumbles upon a truth hidden from her—the truth about Raghu's mentally ill sister. Ganesan, who quits a job in a reputable firm and chooses to become a taxi driver, faces third- degree treatment at his own house. The murderous rage that his wife Radha harbors for him and a similar hatred that Shirly feels for her husband Richard is a pattern repeated by almost every woman in a family. Thamarai, a sisterly person to all, balances a harmonious situation for all but, in the end, miserably fails at her daughter's hands. It was then a catastrophic incident that changed everybody's life.
About the book
Like a widow spider who consumes the male once the consummation occurs, the women in the novel would be devouring the men by their demands. The men would seem to have no life of their own but only slogging to settle the family, and yet, in the end, none were entirely satisfied. Raghu is a character who doesn't have any everyday human demands. This nature of Raghu annoys and puzzles his wife, Anu. To find an answer to the puzzle, she embarks on a journey where she stumbles upon a hidden truth that changes her entire perspective. In that situation, Ganesan, who becomes a taxi driver after quitting an engineer's position in a reputable firm, faces third-degree treatment at his house. The murderous rage that his wife Radha harbors for him and a similar hatred that Shirly feels for her husband Richard is a pattern repeated by almost every woman in a family. It was then a catastrophic incident that changed everybody's life. A revelation that dissipates hate and makes one wonder if hate is the only natural way of life.
About the author
Shantichitra was born in Chennai in 1978. Her childhood was that of travel and experiences. Her journey through India, which stretched across Nagaland to New Delhi, enriching her cultural and artistic roots, has been the key factor of her creative impulse. She is currently a professor of English Literature at SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai. She has two novels and many short stories to her credit. Her two novels, The Fractals and Lonely Marriages were well-received for their lucid and gripping narration through the panoramas of culture and life. Her themes always strive to stir and disturb the tranquility and tedium of life.
Fiction & Anita Nair
Synopsis
Sigmund Freud said once to Marie Bonaparte: 'The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?" This is the gap that the male text has created since its genesis and which can be filled up only by a text created by a female writer who doesn't follow the male-ordained formula of expectations for creating or understanding a woman. Anita Nair is one such writer who, through her narratives and reconstructions of the collective psyche of women in India in particular, has permanently carved a place for herself for her unique understanding of women's minds. FICTION AND ANITA NAIR explores how-to see-through women's consciousness and understand 'What a woman wants?'
About the author
Shantichitra was born in Chennai in 1978. Her childhood was that of travel and experiences. Her journey through India, which stretched across Nagaland to New Delhi, enriching her culture and artistic roots, has been the key factor of her creative impulse. She is currently a professor of English literature at SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai. She is also the Department in charge of Fashion Designing at SRM. She has three novels, three critical studies, and many short stories to her credit. Her stories and criticisms are well received for the lucid and gripping narration through the panoramas of culture and life. Her themes always do strive to stir and disturb tranquillity and tedium.
Sigmund Freud said once to Marie Bonaparte: 'The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?" This is the gap that the male text has created since its genesis and which can be filled up only by a text created by a female writer who doesn't follow the male-ordained formula of expectations for creating or understanding a woman. Anita Nair is one such writer who, through her narratives and reconstructions of the collective psyche of women in India in particular, has permanently carved a place for herself for her unique understanding of women's minds. FICTION AND ANITA NAIR explores how-to see-through women's consciousness and understand 'What a woman wants?'
About the author
Shantichitra was born in Chennai in 1978. Her childhood was that of travel and experiences. Her journey through India, which stretched across Nagaland to New Delhi, enriching her culture and artistic roots, has been the key factor of her creative impulse. She is currently a professor of English literature at SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai. She is also the Department in charge of Fashion Designing at SRM. She has three novels, three critical studies, and many short stories to her credit. Her stories and criticisms are well received for the lucid and gripping narration through the panoramas of culture and life. Her themes always do strive to stir and disturb tranquillity and tedium.
