நீலாம்பல்

by Kutti Revathi

“நீலாம்பல்”, குட்டி ரேவதியின் குறுநாவல். பெண் தனிமைப்பயணத்தில் சுமை தாங்கி என்று எதுவும் எவரும் எக்கணமும் இல்லை. அடர் இருள் வாழ்வினூடே உயிரூட்டும் நம்பிக்கையோடும் தன் வளரிளம் பருவ அனுபவங்களோடும் அயராது நடந்து கொண்டே இருக்கும் அவளிடம் வாழ்க்கை தன் கால அசைவுகளை காற்றைப் போல நிகழ்த்திச் செல்கிறது. கிராம நிலவெளியும் நகர காண்வெளியும் அவள் அடுத்தடுத்து வைக்கும் அடிகளுக்கு இடையே அசைந்து நகர்கின்றன.

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 1, 2020

About the author

Dr. S. Revathi (pen name: Kutti Revathi) is an Indian lyricist, poet, activist and a doctor. She has published three books of poetry and is the editor of Panikkudam, a literary quarterly for women's writing and also the first Tamil feminist magazine. Post several literary meetings and reviewing poetry collections by fellow students, she began working on some of her own pieces. Following school, she studied Siddha medicine and got a bachelor's degree in Siddha medicine and surgery, one of the oldest medical systems in the world that derived from her native Tamil Nadu. She had been pursuing her doctoral research in medical anthropology at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Chennai. Revathi received the Sigaram 15: Faces of Future award for literature from India Today and was awarded a travel grant in 2005 by the Sahitya Akademi to meet leading litterateurs from India. She is a contemporary Tamil poet and has published numerous poetry collections.

Reviews

[Navaneeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reluctantly started reading it but in the first few pages itself the story started keeping me engrossed. Perfect feminist literature.

I often think, what's the purpose of reading fiction. This book gave me answers to that question:

As a man, I have always had a genuine curiosity to know:
- how exactly does a woman feel when she has lust and sexual desires?
- what does her sex dream look and feel like?
- how does she feel when she is forced to have sex with someone she doesn't desire to have sex with?

Now, these are very personal questions to be asked to a woman. Even if these questions can be asked to a woman with whom our boundaries are thinner, that woman must be able to exactly express her feelings in words.

Now is when a fiction like this becomes very essential. You get answers to those questions from the story without having to get personal.