Gruha Lakshmi by Volga
Apr. 21st, 2010 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Volga is a Telugu feminist poet/novelist/short story writer, whose name I first heard in a whisper from my mother when we had one of our first discussions on feminism. She'd hid a novel of Volga's ('Sahaja') under her mattress to keep her family from knowing, and my grandfather made her throw her books and pamphlets away when marriage proposals started arriving for her.
I went looking for the Telugu original of a favourite poem, but stumbled upon this gem instead. It seems about impossible to find her poems online in Telugu script :(
( Gruha lakshmi )
( The Lady of the house )
On a side note, I've been really enjoying all the discussions on the nuances of translation here. Cheers to everyone who's been posting!
I went looking for the Telugu original of a favourite poem, but stumbled upon this gem instead. It seems about impossible to find her poems online in Telugu script :(
( Gruha lakshmi )
( The Lady of the house )
On a side note, I've been really enjoying all the discussions on the nuances of translation here. Cheers to everyone who's been posting!