HUMANOID - Malayalam Short Stories
HUMANOID a collection of Malayalam Short Stories by Sujith Balakrishnan
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Being in Shirshasan
BEING IN SHIRSHASAN My Second Novel - " Being in Shirshasan" is published through Amazon Kindle. Set in the fast-developing city of Dubai, “Being in Shirshasan” portrays the life struggle and the ill incidents that befall on a lower-middle-class man, Shiva, and his family. Struggling to cope with his day-to-day crises, frustration mounts to an emotional outburst. At an odd hour, a misfortune completely changes their fate. After fourteen years Shiva receives a letter from his young adult daughter. With years still to spend in prison, where will this take him?
Charu Nivedita - Interview : by Sujith Balakrishnan
Interview with the acclaimed writer Charu Nivedita by Sujith Balakrishnan Transgressive writing must be taboo in contemporary India. Is it due to its obscenity, its nakedness or its wildness? It should be nothing of the reasons but the utter hypocritical mindset developed from the frustration of a failed spring revolution in India. When openness, plurality, have been replaced by the superficial happiness achieved by materialistic wealth and fame, transgressiveness can’t prosper in such a society, they suppress and attack the person who tried to open up the nakedness of the body, the nakedness of sexual pleasures, the nakedness of utter truth, the nakedness of society. A society that wants to hide all the guilty pleasures but to enjoy in its full extend clandestinely and consider it as morally correct but morally sick as in the true sense. What India has come to know as ‘Transgressive’ writing is regarded by the rest of the world as ‘soft porn’ ‘Hedonism’ and even...