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We’re really excited about the DSC Festival in London. This year, two of our Young Zubaan titles will be featured at the festival. Anitha Balachandran’s exquisitely illustrated, “Mr Jeejeebhoy and the Birds” and Tabish Khair’s magical story, “The Glum Peacock”.
Please do check it out if you happen to be in London. Copies of both books will be available on sale.
If you can’t, do check out the books either way, they’re lovely.
More details here:
http://southasianlitfest.com/program/mr-jeejeebhoy-and-the-birds/
http://southasianlitfest.com/program/the-glum-peacock/
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Growing up, there weren’t too many female cartoon icons. The evil witch was always evil, so was the evil stepmother, and Cinderella, frankly, was just too much of a Goody Two-Shoe. Everyone, from Snow White to Rapunzel to Red Riding Hood was a damsel in distress, and who could blame them, considering the patriarchal set-up they were born into. Then, there was Penelope, who drove a chic pink car and sported a sexy pink blouse with leggings, a scarf around her head that hugged her neck and was kept in place by a pair of glasses that always hung on her forehead. “Hayalp” she would say in a thick Southern accent each time “The Hooded Claw,” kidnapped her, which was at least three or four times each episode. Only the audience knew that The Hooded Claw was actually her legal guardian who was attempting to murder Penelope in order to get her inheritance.
Penelope had style. She was suave, she was rarely ever frazzled, even if she was tied to a railway track, silent-movie style, or to a torpedo headed for China. Her ‘seven-dwarfves’ like protectors would come to her rescue, more often than not, she’d end up rescuing them.
Was Penelope Pitsop a ‘Damsel Undistressed?’
Leave us a comment. We’d love to know what you feel. And let us know who’s your favourite feminist-leaning cartoon character.
Most stimulating comment will receive a Zubaan Poster Women T-shirt.
Is she funny, annoying, sharp, quiet, bold, what? Say something interesting about good Indian girls in the comments section below this review (link provided) and win a free copy of The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl or The Good Indian Girl’s Guide to Living, Loving and Having Fun.
http://www.womensweb.in/articles/good-indian-girl-book-review/
“According to the authors of The Bad Boys’ Guide To The Good Indian Girl, Annie Zaidi and Smriti Ravindra, the Good Indian Girl, or the GIG, is a ‘condition’ and the word ‘good’ isn’t the opposite of bad. The good Indian girl is one who has managed to find a way around social restrictions by pretending to conform and doing what it takes to survive. Zaidi and Ravindra identify certain situations and analyse them through illustrative stories that, as they point out in their preface, are not quite fiction. “About 80% is fact. Most stories are drawn from our own experiences, or that of our schoolmates or college friends, or friends of friends,” Zaidi said in a recent interview.”
Another review by a reader, though her take on the title is not quite how it happened :). Here is what she has to say about the book.
“If I were asked to name this book, I would have called it “Splendid Stories of Good Indian Girls, Which Can Be Enjoyed By All.” And man, what classy stories they are. Some of them are not more than two pages long and some run to ten pages or more. Each of them is about an Indian girl, mostly good, a few bad and many who are not so good, but manage to get away with it. Zaidi and Ravindra write in excellent unobtrusive prose which is akin to high quality corn flour used in good chicken soup. You don’t really get to taste the corn flour and don’t even think of it much as you gulp down the soup, but without the quality corn flour, the soup wouldn’t be half as enjoyable. Another very good thing about the prose is that though jointly written, it is seamless. If the joint authorship hadn’t been proclaimed on the cover, I would have thought the entire collection was written by a single very good writer.”
Read the full deal at http://winnowed.blogspot.com/2011/08/book-review-bad-boys-guide-to-good.html
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Those of you who couldn’t be at our launch last evening, here’s a little video, an interview done a year ago with Mitra Phukan by Assamese journalist Nabish Alam.
The launch, though, was fabulous launch. Shubha Mudgal and Vidya Rao, both legendary vocalists, were on the panel for the release. We had about seventy people in the audience, all of whom were riveted by the stimulating conversation between the three about the book.
We have another event today at 5.30pm at Spell & Bound bookstore at SDA Market, opposite the IIT Gate. Come if you can. Zubaan author Bijoya Sawian will be in conversation with Mitra Phukan.
We’d love to see you.
–The Zubaan Team
Those of you who weren’t able to make it to Bangalore for our fantastic panel discussion, “Writing the Feminist Future” featuring Shilpa Phadke, Annie Zaidi, Meera Devi, Pramada Menon, Nisha Susan, moderated by Anita Roy, here’s a little video that should give you a feel of what it was like to be in that beautiful, radical space called Jaaga.
One of the friends in this video decided to blog her own thoughts after watching it.
Here is a brief extract:
Most of us (in India) cannot or won’t express our feeling too openly, because we live in fear of being rejected, of being judged, of being branded as social outcast. We are kind and compassionate, even to those who hurt us, we pretend to forget and forgive, we keep a smile and move on, and we lead a double-faced life.My friend posts a FB status that says “I’M A HANDFUL – unfortunately most women WON’T re-post this. I’m strong willed, independent, a bit outspoken, and I tell it like it is. I make mistakes, I am sometimes out of control and at times hard to handle but I love and give with all my heart. If you can’t handle me at my worst then you sure don’t deserve me at my best. If you are a HANDFUL, re-post! I dare you..I’ll be looking for the ladies who re-post”I asked her “Are you a good Indian girl?’ and she replies “not a chance..not even trying.” And I am set thinking if the above status makes you very un-Indian?
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