"You die because you Think" seems the logic wht more one can expect from a state where the major disocurse is on "How to patronise voices"
Nalini Jameela's agency could be acceptable now to DC, thnks to the neo-liberal acumen of Publishers, which the "pre"-liberal world could not offer to NAlini (our avowed leftist who do don-quixotian exercise against globalisation may not agree.. yea i do agree that don-quixote is too complicated a character to freeze inot a ideological time zone) But dileep, u didn't mention the harsh criticsms that ur paper recieved in Hyderabad that apart.. seems to be a quite intersting piece so, best wishes On 10/12/07, Dileep Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sukumar Azheekkode alleged that it was Sudheesh and other friends who > were > responsible for the last press meet and death of M. N. Vijayan. > A peculiar Kerala logic that is. Even a 'respectable' man like MNVijayan > > is denied of his agency in what he did . > That reminded me of the way in which Kerala 'public' > generally behaved to Nalini Jameela. Also, the way in which agency was > denied to Rajeena, > victim in Vithura case ... > Below I am pasting a small descriptive portion of a paper presented at > Hyderabad Central university > on October 4th [ in a seminar on 'Translation and Transformation"] this > month by me. > The paper was titled " Who is a writer? On Writings of Nalini Jameela and > C. ayyappan". > > Nalini Jameela came to the public attention in Kerala when her > autobiography became a best seller.There was an uproar as DCBooks , the > major mainstream publishing house in malayalam published it. Incidentally , > I was working as editor in DCBooks then though not directly involved in > that project.Nalin was a friend much before I joined DCBooks. > Everybody, [ rightists and feminists alike ] thought that her > story was fiction and the real 'author' was the person who transcribed it. > Surprisingly, Nalini hereself came to my home one day and complained that > she was completely upset to see the published version.She wanted to revise > it thouroughly. > Both of us went and spoke with Ravi DC [ incidentally that was > her 'first' encounter with the publisher!!] . The actual situation was more > complicated than we expected it to be.According to the agreement signed, > the rights of her autobiography was with the person who transcribed it! > Ravi DC agreed to bring out the revised version and Nalini got the rights > back after paying 25,000 rupees out of her royalty to I. Gopinath, the > transcriber. One wonders whether any other 'author' will be treated in a > similar manner.In public's view, she can't have any political or > heoretical dilemmas. > After reclaiming the right, we ie; five of us worked as a group > and prepared the new version out of fresh interviews within one month. Her > decision to rewrite the autobiography also created much controversy. > She mentions in her introduction to the revised versionn that she > did try to write it herself, but couldn't move beyond a few sentences. She > wrote this much in a notebook. ' I am Nalini. Was born at Kalloor near > Amballoor. I am fourty-nine years old." This ended in her losing a client as > he learned her real age after accidenatlly reading it! Thgus lack of 'a > room of one's own without cliends' foiled her attempt at becoming an author. > > Couple of weeks ago, when the English translation was released in > Delhi, Nalini respnded to questions about authorship in an interesting way. > most of the reporters refused to accept somebody who gets her autobiography > written by others as an authentic author.Answering questions about her > next literary venture Nalini sarcastically replied: You just mentioned how > can I be an author. Therefore ,it will take time for me to write the next > book. Let me become an author first!!" > > > > > > > -- > Dileep R I thuravoor > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
