UNSUPERVISED Thoughts #4

Sometimes I wished I was writing fiction; but my metaphorical voyage through an unseen (but deeply felt) history and an impregnable future has been absolutely powerful and intense. 
It has been a refreshing effort in combining an analytical eye, a nostalgic observance, and an imaginative viewpoint to form a comprehensive understanding of our politics, societies, cultures, religions and our artistic endeavors as the human species.

UNSUPERVISED Thoughts #3

The journey of writing ‘UNSUPERVISED’ has been fascinating, and rather unexpected. 
It began with an essay I wrote over two years ago which just sat in a folder on my desktop. On a random day in January this year I happened to open it and read through, and the rest of the book just flowed in a fervour out of the thoughts left simmering in it. 
Every step, every word has been deeply felt, deeply experienced and I sort of surprised myself with momentum the process picked up.
Extremely excited, slightly nervous to share my new baby with all of you! 🙂

UNSUPERVISED thoughts #2

At the end of day, it is in the lap of words that I find my sense of completeness, my sense of an unadulterated ‘me’. 
Writing ‘UNSUPERVISED’ has revealed to me unique perspectives of looking at and understanding the world around. And most importantly the slogan ‘The personal is Political’ (which has given me quite a few sleepless nights before)

UNSUPERVISED Thoughts #1

Any kind of ‘creation’ is a very solitudinal activity, and dealing with words more so (as my personal experience has been). Yet the whole process of writing UNSUPERVISED’ felt like I was in the midst of a thick crowd - a crowd that seamlessly melted in and out of the various time periods and spaces simultaneously, taking me on a journey hitherto unknown. 
Non fiction has its own set of challenges to tackle - ‘who and what has decided history as we know it and how and why should I trust it ?’ being one of the main ones in this particular collection. But the solution revealed itself to me during the process and the words found a solid ground; and I couldn’t have been more eager to share it with all of you.

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UNSUPERVISED

Delighted to share with you all my brand new book 'UNSUPERVISED - Global Narratives through a Feministic Perspective', out on June 28th Worldwide on Amazon.

The book cover painting is by yours truly, which has been fabulously designed into the cover below by my dear friend Kasinatha Rao.

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'UNSUPERVISED' is an intellectual and emotional investigation into the fascinating journey of humankind through a feministic perspective. The myriad political, social, and economic conditions continue to be highly influenced by the presence or absence of women's role in them. This perspective might just be the path to help achieve a universal understanding - a poetic, political, and philosophical solution to contemporary global narratives'.

Global coherence

Mutual exclusivity is a myth grown stale. 

The inter - connections within ourselves and with others is morphing slowly (but insistently) into a singular vision. 

And how glorious is its reflection on our lives! There is a blend of color, a blend of thought, a blend of voice textures. 

It isn't without any opposition, of course, but in a way this opposition does carry forward the path to coherence. When it brings up a 'why', there is no choice but to answer it. When it brings up a 'why not', there is no choice but to gloriously achieve it.

Just to make my own post more coherent, yes I am talking about the globalization of the world in all aspects and the globalization of our own identities. No matter where we are or who we are, we cannot (and we need not) claim a monotony over our names and cultures and races anymore. And yet its representation - whether it is in the arts or in entertainment or in sports or in politics - is something that is still being resisted. Everyday local scenes at schools or grocery stores seem largely open and uncomplicated - common people are really not bothered much about these infidelities. It is only on the higher platforms that the police pop in with their moral duties, which seems ridiculous considering they are supposed to be the 'higher' platforms.

"What can be done?" is a question which has to be answered on a personal level by everyone, and that will automatically lead to a melting pot of resolutions.There are policies and amendments abound everywhere, yet the fight for more representation of women continues; more representation of all races continues; more representation of all skin colors continues; more representation of all orientations of all types continues.

Sometimes it is worth pondering if our sensitivity to all these factors - of gender, skin, nationality etc speaks of our awareness (because we are aware and 'sensitive' about it) or if it is a curse in disguise because we STILL take these outward factors into consideration. 

Awareness is one thing, differentiation and marginalization based on that awareness is quite another.

And so the fight still continues, in this era and this age, and THAT is kind of absurd and unacceptable.

Or is it?

Image - Radhika Prabhu

'Untitled', Mixed Media on paper, 2014

 www.artbyradhika.wordpress.com

'Because I am made up of sea - dust, sprinkled with the sands of a timeless shore