The glass bead curtain / Lakshmi Kannan.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Virasta Pub, 2016.Description: 393 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9789382711797
- 894.811 KAN
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894.811 KAL P5 Kalki's Ponniyin Selvan Part-1 to Part-5 Set / | 894.811 KAM மானிட அறிவியல்களின் சொல்லாடலில் அமைப்பும் குறியும் விளையாட்டும் | 894.811 KAN Uprooting the pumpkin : | 894.811 KAN The glass bead curtain / | 894.811 KAR சமுதாய மொழியியல்/ | 894.8110 LAK சங்ககாலச் சமூக அமைப்பியல் பாணர்களின் மரபும் நீட்சியும்/ | 894.811 LAK பாணும் பண்ணும்/ |
Novel.
Kalyani and Athai, two feisty women, sail through the turn- of- the- century Madras Presidency under British rule, despite archaic customs such as child marriage and a prescriptive widowhood. British influence encounters an ambivalent attitude that was contrary and at times uproariously hilarious. Kalyani’s child marriage ends her formal education because of a prevalent superstition that married girls would be widowed if sent to school. Tutored at home by the intrepid Susan O’Leary of Irish origin, Kalyani soaks up her irrepressible humour. O’Leary is equally delighted by the strapping girl’s passion for sports and athletics, but is anxious about her pupil’s future beyond the luminous beauty of the glass bead curtain in her father’s home. Kalyani, grows taller than her husband Natarajan. It becomes a contentious issue for her retrograde female in-laws who mock her height and her English. Kalyani battles her way through unfazed and evolves as a successful badminton coach with the unstinting support of her husband, father-in- law and grand mother-in- law. The intellectually endowed Athai uses her widowhood to pursue her education. The family discovers an astonishing secret about her, when she dies. A contemporary writer Shailaja “writes” the novel capturing the changing ethos of the people with the irony, pathos and humour that animate the period.
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