Dr CS Lakshmi has been an independent researcher in Women’s Studies for more than forty years. She has a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She writes under the pseudonym Ambai in Tamil about love, relationships, quests and journeys and her short story collections have been published in Tamil and also translated into English. She is currently the Director of SPARROW (Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women).
Myths and legends jostle with the contemporary in these stories where social issues of our times resonate with the inevitability of the past. The lyricism of Carnatic ragas permeate the pages of this quiet and powerful book in which love is rendered in all its immeasurable avatars—parental,...
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